EU backs ending daylight saving time across the continent When are the UK bank holidays? Cons of BST all year round Scotland: One of the biggest obstacles to change has come from Scotland, where MPs warned that the sun would not rise until 10am in some northern parts of the country.
When do the clocks go back again? Which countries use daylight saving time? However, the European Union is considering scrapping daylight saving time permanently.
UK News. Have we turned a Covid corner? In Depth. Getting to grips with. Popular articles. Insulate Britain: what the protesters want. Could the UK work with two different time zones? Changing the time on the Palace of Westminster's Great Tower four clock faces takes five hours. Published 28 October There is an annual synchronized daylight saving time schedule that most of Europe follows which starts on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October.
According to this schedule, most countries in Europe have the following DST schedule:. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made major time zone changes in and hopes to continue to make time zone and DST changes in Russia abolished the time zones of four Russian regions on March 28, , which reduced the number of time zones in Russia from 11 to 9.
The UK took the plunge in May and has stuck with it ever since. Many countries dropped the ruse after , only readopt it during the energy crises of the s. All EU member states move clocks back one hour on Sunday, under a law that harmonises the duration of wintertime to prevent a proliferation of different seasonal changes across neighbouring countries.
Russia decided to stick with daylight saving all year round in , but that led to darkness at noon in some latitudes, and so in it reverted to standard time in the autumn. The clocks have stayed there ever since.
Well at this time of year, an hour extra in bed for a start. But DST has far wider ramifications, for energy use, farming, even mood. Some argue that DST does not really save energy , as less household usage in the evenings in summer might be offset by greater morning usage. Health impacts are widely touted: people can get more exposure to sunlight through the summer DST months, boosting their vitamin D levels.
But critics argue that disruption to circadian rhythms sleep patterns can negatively impact on human health. Studies have found that the risk of having a heart attack increases in the first three weekdays after switching to DST in the spring.
However they also found that the extra hour of sleep after the clocks went back in autumn decreased the risk of heart attacks in the first few weekdays after switching. DST is thought to have an impact on the economy but again it is a mixed picture. While the retail and tourism industries do benefit from the extra hour of summer evening daylight, that may well be offset by some of the health effects mentioned above.
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