Remember: winter is coming soon

Winter time is celebrated on the last Sunday in October of each year, when the 4 o’clock clock is turned back one hour. Winter time is valid until the last Sunday in March, then back to summer time.

This year, we will change clocks at night from Saturday to Sunday, October 25.

The twisting of time evokes passions

The time is changed twice a year in accordance with the Directive of the European Parliament (EP) and of the Council on summer-winter agreements. Most of the countries of the Old Continent and many other countries of the world have seasonal hours.

This year, the clocks still need to be turned: the European Parliament’s decision on seasonal time has been postponed until 2021, but in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic that started in spring 2007 and ongoing Brexit negotiations They have shuffled the cards on whether to turn off the clock permanently. The problem is still frozen.

2018 A public survey conducted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications showed that more Lithuanians would like DST to remain in the country if the European Union (EU) renounces annual time rotation.

According to her, 62 percent would tend to choose permanent summer time. population. This choice was most supported by people over 50, residents of district centers or smaller cities. At that time, 26 percent would like 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%. did not answer the question.

Delfi recalls that winter and summer hours have been introduced to make better use of daylight hours, but critics say that alternating schedules can be harmful to health. Geographically, one fifth of Lithuania (western part) belongs to the first time zone, the rest of the country to the second.