Time changeover Switzerland has set the clocks back by one hour
Summer time ended in Switzerland on Saturday night. The clocks were put back to 02:00 at 03:00. The night was therefore one hour longer. Central European Time will now apply until March 30, 2025.
27.10.2024, 02:00
SDA
Central European Time has set the pace in Switzerland for more than 125 years. According to the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (Metas), people are mistaken when they talk about winter time. There is only summer time and standard time. With standard time, it gets dark earlier in the evenings. The time change has been in place in Switzerland since 1981.
The change between standard time and summer time is controversial in this country and in the EU. In 2020, an initiative in Switzerland to abolish the time change failed due to a lack of signatures. In March 2019, the EU Parliament called for the time changeover to be abolished in 2021. However, the necessary decisions by a majority of individual states have still not been taken.
Ukraine abolishes summer time
Ukraine has gone further than its European partner countries. As reported by the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform, the war-torn country will change its clocks for the last time in the early morning of October 27, 2024. Daylight saving time was abolished by law following a parliamentary decision.
The main aim is to send a signal of independence to Russia. Russia had introduced Moscow time everywhere in the Ukrainian territories it occupied. A time with which Ukrainian summer time had previously coincided. In future, the two countries' time systems will now diverge by at least one hour, and even more in other time zones in Russia.
