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Daylight Saving Time ends October 25 – Clocks are set back to 2 am to 3 am This means “normal time” will apply again for the next five months.
The upcoming time change is also causing political discussions about the abolition of the time change to resurface. According to National Councilor SVP Yvette Estermann, abolition will not take place in Switzerland: two months before the end of the collection period, only half of the signatures were collected for her initiative.
The Corona crisis thwarted the initiative: “People currently have other concerns.” The time change is not the most pressing issue in neighboring countries either.
Is the EU abolishing summer time?
In Switzerland, daylight saving time has existed since 1981. Since 1996, people in all EU countries have also moved forward one hour on the last Sunday in March and one hour back on the last Sunday in October. With the introduction of standard time, nights will be one hour longer and consequently it will get dark earlier in the evening.
In March last year, the EU Parliament called for the time change to be abolished in 2021. However, not all decisions have yet been taken.
Switzerland is considering adaptation
According to the Federal Institute of Metrology (Metas), Switzerland is following developments in neighboring countries and will carefully examine whether any adjustments to the weather regulation would make sense and be in the interest of Switzerland. Therefore, the existing timing regulations apply until further notice.
In the spring of 1916, the four neighboring states of Switzerland introduced daylight saving time and advanced the clock by one hour during the summer months. The goal was to save energy during World War I, as the historian Jakob Messerli stated in a dissertation. (myi / SDA)
On October 25, the time has come again: winter time begins at 3 am and the clock is turned back one hour. So tonight is an hour longer than usual, to the delight of all morning grumpies.
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It’s easier to remember time changes with donkey bridges.
- In spring, you place your garden furniture in front of the door. In autumn they are put back in the shed.
- In spring, one dresses lighter. Will be back in the fall.
- The 2-3-2 rule (based on RS-232 computer interface): in spring, the time is set from 2 am to 3 am In autumn from 3 am to 2 am
- In winter, temperatures are in the negative range, in summer, again, in the positive range.
- In spring, when it is hot again, time expands: the clock is moving forward. In autumn, when it is cold again, time contracts, the clock slows down.
- To All English Speakers: Spring Forward, Backward!
- And quite stupid: the clock is fast in summer, both with an “o”.
Since daylight saving time is an artificially introduced measure of time regulation, not all countries in the world use the same system. “Winter time” is actually a misnomer, it is just normal time.
Countries that use summer and winter time
- All states of the European Union
- Countries in the same period as the EU: Albania, Andorra, Kosovo, Faroe Islands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, Serbia, Vatican City, San Marino, Moldova, Gibraltar, Ukraine (exception in Crimea)
- South America and Latin America: Brazil (partially), Paraguay, Mexico
- United States, Canada and Alaska
- Caribbean
- Africa: Morocco, Namibia and Western Sahara
- Asia: Mongolia
- Australia (partially) and New Zealand
Countries without time change
- Europe: Iceland last used time change in 1968 and Russia and Belarus in 2014.
- Large parts of Asia such as China, Japan, Laos, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Saudi Arabia or Iraq are giving up on change.
- Most African countries too.
