Don’t forget to turn the clocks: daylight saving time is back in Lithuania

We remind you that daylight saving time in Lithuania starts on the last Sunday in March at 3 pm In Lithuanian time, clockwise rotates one hour. During the summer, Lithuania is in the third time zone (UTC + 3 hours). The west will be brighter longer.

2021 Daylight saving time is introduced on March 28. 03:00. The clock advances +1 hour. The so-called seasonal summer time applies for more than half a year, until the last Sunday in October, when clocks must be turned back one hour. The time will be changed twice a year in accordance with the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on summer-winter agreements.

When asked by Robert Pogorel, media relations representative of the European Parliament (EP) office in Lithuania, why the rotation has not been abandoned since this year, he commented that there is no consensus in the Council of the European Union ( EU).

“The final legislation has not even been approved yet, so there will be no approval until there is consensus,” he said.

However, most Lithuanians would like to finally abandon this practice and stick with daylight saving time. With the onset of a pandemic, it is unclear when the problem will return.

According to a representative survey previously conducted by the public opinion research company Baltijos tyrimai, 62 percent. Lithuanians would like DST to remain in the country if they refrain from changing the yearly schedule. This choice was most supported by people over 50, residents of district centers or smaller cities.

At the time, 26 percent wanted winter time. surveyed. Winter time is relatively more favored by metropolitan residents, as well as by respondents living in the western and eastern regions of the country. A tenth of the respondents did not care how long to live, and 2 percent. did not answer the question.

The introduction of daylight saving time was first agreed at the EU level in the 1980s, and since then all EU countries have changed clocks one hour twice a year, on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October.