As of 2022, daylight saving time is used in the following Asian countries: : From last Sunday March to last Sunday October; follows EU practice. : From Friday before the last Sunday of March to last Sunday October;follows EU practice. : From last Sunday March to last Sunday October Palestine: From last Saturday March to last Saturday October By country and regions People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China experimented with DST from 1986, but abandoned DST from 1992 onwards. The PRC now uses one time zone (UTC+08:00) for the whole country. Egypt The British first instituted summer time in Egypt in 1940, during the Second World War. The practice was stopped after 1945, but resumed 12 years later, in 1957. Before the revolution in January 2011, the government was planning to take a decision to abolish summer time in 2011 before President Hosni Mubarak's term expires in September 2011. The transitional government did so on 20 April 2011. Under the pretext that daylight saving time would save energy, the Egyptian government decided on 7 May 2014 to reinstate summer time with an exception for the holy month of Ramadan. In April the next year, a poll was held on whether to apply summer time or not. Following the results, the government decided on 20 April to temporarily cancel summer time, to make the necessary amendment to the laws and asked the ministers to work on a study to determine the probability of applying DST in coming years or not. The ministry of electricity assured that the achieved electricity savings from applying summer time is not of any tangible effect. Summer time was expected to return in 2016, starting on July 8 (after Ramadan), but on July 5, it was decided to again cancel it. Hong Kong Hong Kong used DST beginning in 1941, but abandoned it from 1980 onwards. India India and the Indian subcontinent employed DST during the Second World War, from 1942 to 1945. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971, daylight saving time was briefly observed to minimize civilian energy consumption. Currently, India does not observe DST, and uses just one time zone (UTC+5:30) for the entire country. Indonesia Currently, Indonesia does not observe DST. However, various DST offsets were observed from 1 January 1924 to 1 January 1964. Iran Iran observed DST in 1977–1980, 1991–2005 and