Livingstone Leandy, the law firm in Durban, implemented daylight saving in 1999 – enabling its staff to start work at 7am and leave at 3.30pm during December and January.

Gordon Pentecost, the company's MD, said in Business Report that the idea was to provide more leisure time for staff and their families. Daylight saving could not be introduced for the whole summer as it would conflict with school and other business schedules. He said it could not provide an overall solution to the electricity crisis, but it could help and added that it had no impact on his business – except to make his staff happier. ‘It works superbly,’ Pentecost said.
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