We have to keep moving the hours, we will sleep longer from Saturday to Sunday
On Sunday, October 31, Central European Summer Time (CET) will end in Slovakia, as in most European countries. At 3.00 CET, the clock will move back to 2.00 Central European Time (CET). So people will sleep an hour longer at night.
Central European Summer Time came into force on the night of Saturday 27 March to Sunday 28 March, when the clock moved from 2.00 CET to 3.00 CET. Apart from Slovakia, it also applies in other European countries, with the exception of Belarus, Russia and Iceland.
Originally, the annual time change was supposed to end this year, but in the end it remains at least until 2026.
In its current form, summer time was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1979. The energy crisis also contributed to its adoption. from Saturday to Sunday during the last weekend of September.
It reduces traffic almost in the morning
Since 1996, the European Commission (EC) has extended the summer-time period until the last weekend in October. The time shift has stabilized at 2.00 h and 3.00 h, respectively, because it requires traffic the most during this time.
Summer time has had opponents since its introduction. More civic and initiative called for a reassessment of this custom, which has not been justified in the recent period – the energy savings that the summer time initially introduced are minimal today.
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The EC therefore organized a public consultation on time changes in EU Member States from 4 July to 16 August 2018. In the near future, 4.6 million people responded, 84 percent of whom opposed time changes. Opponents argued mainly for health reasons.
On a proposal from the European Commission, on 26 March 2019, MEPs approved a directive according to which the seasonal change of time should take place for the last time in 2021. The directive left the last option for the EU to adjust Central European Summer Time. She recommended coordinating as much time as possible so as not to disrupt the internal market. In the end, however, the decision was postponed to the future.
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. For example, in Slovakia the sun sets after 7 pm from the end of March to the middle of September CET, ie almost half a year. It is exactly 173 days in Bratislava. Without summer time, the number of days with sunshine after 7 pm would drop to 113. During year-round summer time, the sun would rise after eight o’clock in the last decade of November until mid-February, and around 8.30 am in January.
In 2022, daylight saving time will run from March 27 to October 30.