Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy – DW – 03/30/2025
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Most Europeans woke up on Sunday clocks that jumped forward by one hour. The twice-annual time change has long been contentious and was even voted against in an EU open consultation back in 2018.

Summary

Most European countries moved clocks forward one hour on Sunday, marking the start of daylight saving time (DST), a practice increasingly criticized.

Originally introduced during World War I to conserve energy, DST returned during the 1970s oil crisis and now shifts Central European Time to Central European Summer Time.

Despite a 2018 EU consultation where 84% of nearly 4 million respondents supported abolishing DST, implementation stalled due to member state disagreement.

Poland, currently holding the EU presidency, plans informal consultations to revisit the issue amid broader geopolitical priorities.

  • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    3 days ago

    We need a standard system for tracking time. If every city decides their own time based on the sun it will be chaos.

      • mangaskahn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        I’ve had way too many conversations with people that simply can’t comprehend how that works. “But then we’d have to do everything so much earlier, it would be dark all the time.” I try to explain that we’d still do everything at the same time of day, just call it something different, but they just can’t wrap their minds around that.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        China has one time zone, but in Xinjiang they use local time anyway. Getting everyone on one time zone for daily use is unlikely.