Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, with the clock shifting from 3:00 to 2:00
Updates: 10/30/2021 12:12 AM
Released: 30.10.2021, 00:12
Prague – Summer time ends on Sunday and the standard Central European Time (CET) begins, for which the term winter is used. At 03:00 the clock will move back to 02:00, so the night will be an hour longer. Winter, astronomical time will be five months, until the last Sunday in March. According to the European Commission’s plan, it was mandatory to end the change of time throughout the Union next year. However, the EU countries have not agreed on a change, so people will continue to have to change their lessons twice a year.
Whoever travels by public long-distance transport on Sunday night at the time of the change of time will be on the road for an hour longer. In the middle of the night, night trains and buses wait for an hour at one station and leave according to Central European Time. The change of time will affect the territory of the republic of four night long-distance trains of Czech Railways and their partners, namely the connection from Humenné to Prague and in the opposite direction to Slovakia and one pair of trains from Vienna to Berlin. All trains will wait for departure according to the new time in BohumÃn.
Summer time was originally introduced due to energy savings, which are now negligible. Experts point out, on the contrary, that the negative consequences for human health prevail. Some people complain of sleep deprivation or nausea due to a change in time with mental and physical performance. It takes them some time to reset the internal clock. According to experts, choosing the year-round time would be a more favorable time for a person, which is valid in winter.
Daylight saving time was first introduced in the Czech lands in 1915 and 1916. It returned during World War II in 1940 and lasted until 1949. For the third time, Czechs began to move their watches 40 years ago during the energy crisis. Until the mid-1990s, summer time in the Czech Republic lasted half a year. Since 1996, the republic has joined the customs of the EU and the time lag lasts for seven months.
In September, the government decided that summer time for the next five years, as before, would always start on the last Sunday in March and last until the last Sunday in October, as in most European countries. The Ministry of Labor wrote in the documents to the regulation that the uniform determination of summer and winter time in the EU for the coming years is essential for transport and the functioning of the market.