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Question No.
Daylight living home
-Reply by the Honourable the Chief Secretary
Sir David Ford, KBE, LVO, JP
to a question by the Hon Edward S T HO
in the legislative Council on 20 January 1988-
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2. MR. EDWARD HO asked.
£ the lenited Kingdom,
Question In view of the adoption of daylight saving time in many countries including USA and China, and recent calls by some members of the community in Hong Kong for the refintroduction of daylight saving time, will Government inform this Council whether it will consider adopting summer time in 1988?
CHIEF SECRETARY:
Sir.
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The
preliminary
Government
is at present making a assessment of public
public opinion on the
introduction of daylight saving
of daylight saving time by means of a
telephone poll conducted by the CNTA. If the Government it is
decides to take the matter further, wider consultation will also be necessary. District Boards may be consulted together with groups a particular interest. These would include industrial travel and transport, leisure. I have no
public interest in the
groups, those concerned with cluding the airlines, sport and Sich that would be wide-spread
including
doubt,
A
her
matter also. Because of the need
to give adequate notice, it is unlikely that any change
b.
could be introduced before 1989. But I would like to stress, Sir, amphee-ise that the Government has no preconceived views on
this subject.