Tomorrow, Sunday, the clocks will be set back by one hour
Published: Saturday, Oct 26th 2024, 04:40
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Daylight saving time ends tomorrow, Sunday: the clocks go back to 2 a.m. at 3 a.m.. From then on, standard time, Central European Time, will apply again. The clocks will be set to this time for five months until March 30, 2025.
Central European Time has set the pace in Switzerland for more than 125 years. According to the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (Metas), people are mistaken when they talk about winter time. There is only summer time and standard time. With standard time, it gets dark earlier in the evenings. The time change has been in place in Switzerland since 1981.
The change between standard time and daylight saving time is controversial in Switzerland and the EU. In 2020, an initiative in Switzerland to abolish the time change failed due to a lack of signatures. For its part, the EU Parliament called for the abolition of the time change in 2021 in March 2019. However, the necessary decisions by a majority of individual states have not yet been taken.
Ukraine is further ahead than its European partner countries. As reported by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, the war-torn country will change its clocks for the last time in the early morning of October 27, 2024. Daylight saving time was abolished by law following a parliamentary decision.
The main aim is to send a signal of independence to Russia. Russia had introduced Moscow time everywhere in the Ukrainian territories it occupied. A time with which Ukrainian summer time had previously coincided. In future, the two countries' time systems will now diverge by at least one hour, and even more in other time zones in Russia.
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