The clocks turned back an hour last night TheJournal.ie

REMEMBER: THE CLOCKS have gone back an hour.

Daylight Saving Time “winter time” officially began at 1am today, when clocks were turned back one hour.

Smartphones should have taken over the change automatically, but mechanical watches and watches will need to be delayed by an hour.

The time zone is now GMT, instead of GMT + 1

The ‘winter time’ ends at 1 a.m. From Sunday March 28, 2021, when the clocks will move forward again and we will return to GMT + 1.

Does time change something from the past?

There has been some debate in the EU about whether to eliminate daylight savings time.

In March last year, the European Parliament voted to abolish the seasonal time change, which is based on trying to make use of as much light as possible.

These are the two options:

• If we chose daylight saving time, the time we had been in, it would mean brighter nights, with darker mornings in the winter than we currently experience.
• If we choose winter time, the time we just switched to, it would mean brighter mornings, with darker nights in the summer than we currently have.

Ireland and other member states had been given a 12-month period to decide whether or not they would stay in the summer. That means when we change our clocks in March of next year, it could be the last time.

There is a very obvious problem if Ireland abolished daylight savings time: what happens in Northern Ireland?

Because the UK is no longer in the EU, if Ireland chooses to adopt the European Parliament resolution, it could result in different time zones on the island of Ireland.

Leo Varadkar said during his time as Taoiseach that he would not want Ireland and Northern Ireland to be in different time zones, which may be enough to ensure that Ireland does not rule out biannual time changes.