On the last Sunday of October, the hands return after 60 minutes.
The clock change is scheduled to happen on October 30, when we will all get 1 hour more sleep.
Turning back the clock allows us to have more light in the morning, but it will get darker faster than before.
This system, with 5 months of solar time and 7 months of legal time, has been applied since the 60s.
Initially it was decided to bring more productivity and energy saving.
In recent years, there has been more and more talk about setting an unchanging clock, as this alternation brought consequences to the mood and psychology of Europeans. The European Union has given member countries time to decide whether they want to stay with solar time or legal time.
But the increase in the price of electricity and gas seems to affect the choice between the 2 schedules. Faced with the fact of saving as much energy as possible, there is talk in Europe that it will be decided to stay on legal time all year, that is, with what we currently have. So let's wake up earlier, to make the most of the sunlight.
Currently, a petition has been created on the online site change.org to finally abolish the sundial. The petition has managed to collect more than 240 thousand signatures. We will have to wait for an official decision from the EU to know what will happen next year. Northern European countries, such as Sweden and Finland, have spoken against this decision so far, for which, even so, the day is very long, given that they are close to the North Pole.
The European Parliament had voted against the time change with over 80% of the votes, but then the decision was left to the member states, which seem undecided.