Tonight (October 30th) at three o’clock, turn the hands of the clock one hour back to number 2. At that precise moment we will say “see you next year” at daylight saving time to switch to solar time. Technically we will sleep an hour more, but this for a day will cost us an hour less of light.
Days with less light
The darkness will therefore arrive around 5 pm starting from Sunday and in a phase in which the expensive bills linked to energy consumption are sending numerous families and categories of workers to the streets, the debate on the need to stay in summer time or not became fervent. After all, the alternating system that sees 5 months of solar time and 7 months of summer time has marked our lives since the 1960s.
The proposal of the European parliament in 2018
In 2018, the European Parliament voted on the abolition of switching between one hourly model and another and the large majority, 84% of voters, voted in favor. A directive had therefore been approved which deferred to individual states to choose one or the other timetable throughout the year. The pandemic has created a stalemate. And no one, at the moment, has made a final decision.