Is it like that again … early? It’s winter again

Is it like that again … early? From today it’s winter

You’ve probably already noticed it on your cell phone: Sunday night the clocks were turned back an hour. The normal time applies again. In Switzerland, this has been the time of Central Europe for about 125 years.

Daylight saving time ended at 3 a.m. on October 25. The clocks were turned back to 2 o’clock. According to a report by the Federal Institute of Metrology (Metas), a change to winter time is often wrongly spoken of. However, there is no such thing.

Longer nights

Daylight saving time has existed in Switzerland since 1981. Since 1996, citizens of all EU countries have also moved forward one hour on the last Sunday in March and backward one hour on the last Sunday in October. With the introduction of standard time, nights will be one hour longer and therefore it will get dark earlier in the evening.

The change between normal time and summer time is controversial in this country and in the EU. In March 2019, the EU Parliament called for the abolition of the time change in 2021. However, not all the necessary decisions have been taken. It is also discussed whether summer time or normal time should always prevail.

Failed initiative

According to the Goals, Switzerland is following developments in neighboring countries and will carefully examine whether any adjustment to the time regulation would make sense and would be in the interest of Switzerland. For now, existing timing regulations apply, he said.

According to the SVP Lucerne National Councilor Yvette Estermann, the federal people’s initiative to abolish the time change will not materialize. Two months before the end of the collection period, only just under half of the 100,000 required signatures were collected, Estermann said Tuesday at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. His committee launched the referendum in April 2019. In the future, Central European Time should apply throughout the year in Switzerland.

In particular, the coronavirus crisis thwarted the initiative project, Estermann said in explaining the failure. “People currently have other concerns.” (jaw / sda)