This weekend, you sleep an hour less! We change the time, from Saturday to Sunday at two o’clock in the morning, it will be three o’clock.
But shouldn’t this period change disappear? Europe agreed on the matter in March 2019… Since then, the text has been gathering dust. After an agreement at the level of the European Commission, the European Council adopts the directive and member states must comply with it. Deadline announced at the time: end of 2020.
Don’t count on it this year. Just as we switch to winter time next October, we switch to summer time this weekend, and different countries have yet to decide what time they want to keep. French authorities confirm on their website: “Due to the health crisis linked to Covid-19, this text is no longer on the agenda and should not be discussed in the future. 2023 summer and winter time change is retained.
If governments don’t decide, citizens don’t either. According to our survey of 2,459 readers, a slim majority (50.4%) would prefer to maintain winter time if the time change were to be cancelled.
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