Switching to summer time this weekend, which way are we going? - 20 Minutes
An hour more or an hour less? This Sunday, March 29, at 2 a.m., we switch to summer time. So it will be 3 a.m. We will advance our clocks by one hour, which will make us lose sixty minutes of sleep at night. But good news! We will also lose an hour of confinement! And the sun will set later.
This mechanism, introduced in France in 1976, will soon be completed. On March 26, 2019, MEPs voted to end the seasonal time change. The reform should come into force in 2021 when the member states of the European Union have chosen the time they want to keep.
That of summer or that of winter?
In 2019, a consultation launched in France by the National Assembly received more than two million responses. 83.71% of citizens who replied were in favor of eliminating the time change. Among them, 59.17% preferred to stay in summer time.
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