DON’T FORGET to reset your watch: Time changes at night! Where did this tradition come from? – Topky.sk

Originally, the alternation of summer and winter time was to end this year. In 2018, the European Commission organized a public consultation on time changes, which showed that up to 84 percent of people are against it.

Subsequently, in 2019, the European Parliament approved a directive according to which the seasonal change of time should take place for the last time in 2021. The directive also left Member States the possibility to adjust the time zone issue themselves, ie to opt for year-round Central or Central European Summer Time. They were supposed to do so by 2021, but in the end it was postponed indefinitely because there was no agreement on how much time we would keep. The change of time thus currently remains in force until at least 2026.

He should have saved

Summer time, as we know it today, was introduced in the former Czechoslovakia in 1979. However, the idea itself is much older and some European countries changed their time during the First World War. It operated on the territory of Czechoslovakia with breaks in the 1940s and also in the post-war period.

The subsequent crisis of the annual summer time of the year was largely due to the energy crisis. The time moved an hour forward on the first Saturday of April at midnight, since 1981 it was the last Saturday of March, an hour back again at 1.00 am from Saturday to Sunday during the last weekend of September.

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Since 1996, the European Commission has extended the summer-time period until the last weekend in October. The time shift stabilized at 2 o’clock and 3 o’clock, respectively, because at this time it has the least effect on traffic.

It has its supporters and opponents

The main argument in favor of alternating time is the more efficient use of daylight – in the summer in the evening and again in the winter in the morning. Related to this was lower energy consumption.

Nevertheless, she had the idea from the beginning of her opponents. Many, especially the current arguments against time-lapse, have been based on the fact that the energy savings for which summer time was initially introduced are already minimal today. However, there is also talk of an adverse effect on the human body and the disruption of its established regime.