The Greek Ministry of Transport announced that the transition from summer to winter time will take place, as usual, on the last Sunday in October.
“We remind you that on Sunday 31 October 2021 daylight saving time will expire in accordance with Directive 2000/84 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union of 19.01.2001 on daylight saving time. The clock will be set back one hour, that is, from 4:00 to 3:00, “the ministry said in a statement.
It should be recalled that the European Union planned to end the practice of changing the time twice a year, in March and October. However, the European Council reportedly did not seem to take the issue so seriously and two years later they did not reach a common position on the issue.
According to some reports at the beginning of the year, each of the national governments independently decided that the EU would create too many different time zones.
We will remind, in February 2018, the European Parliament asked the European Commission to conduct a “thorough assessment of the current directive on daylight saving time and submit a proposal for its revision.” In the summer of 2018, the commission held public consultations, in which 4.6 million European citizens took part, of which 84% were in favor of stopping the transfer of clocks.
Another reason that is currently being mentioned is that the fight against the pandemic was more important to Member States than trying to find a solution for daylight saving time.
Personally, I am unhappy to see how it gets dark outside at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. And the eternal question: what do you think?
Do you agree with Daylight Saving Time twice a year?
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