![]() Germany resumed Daylight Saving Time in 1940 and spread it to the countries they occupied, including Denmark, Poland, and the Netherlands. World War II also had a big effect on the European daylight saving efforts. Paris, France's capital city, kept its Daylight Saving Time despite the country as a whole sticking to one time zone the year round - which surely caused problems with trains and trade. However, the UK kept it up, and still does.īut in other nations it wasn't always as simple as yes or no. Within weeks other nations involved in the war, including the UK, France, Italy and Russia, joined Germany in its new timekeeping method.īut Germany stopped changing its clocks in 1919, and Austria followed in 1921. The first nationwide use of Daylight Saving Time was by Germany in 1916, during World War I. That's because every country will be asked to chose to decide whether they continue to change each year to Daylight Saving Time or stay forever on "standard time." If there is not uniformity across the borders in the single market it could make life very complicated. The European Commission is yet to move the proposal forward, and negotiate with member states on whether or not to scrap the extra time "zone" or not.īut one hurdle, along with the pandemic which put the plans on the backburner, is a concern that scrapping the Daylight Saving Time directive will create a patchwork of time zones across the bloc. That's one reason why the European Parliament voted for a proposal to stop moving clocks forward each March to Daylight Saving Time in 2019. Some argue that changing waking hours in such a way can affect both human and animal "biorhythms" and can cause health problems. The point is to make the best use of natural daylight hours, by adjusting when people wake up and go to bed to fit better with the sunlight hours.īut it's not without controversy. In Europe that's the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday of October. ![]() So how does it work, and why isn't it universal?Ĭlocks are turned back by an hour in the autumn, when days are shorter, and turned forward by an hour in spring, when the sun stays in the sky for longer. ![]()
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