Time change The clocks are set back by one hour on Sunday

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday: at 3 a.m. the clocks are set back to 2 a.m.. From then on, standard time, Central European Time, will apply again. The clocks will be set to this time for five months until March 30, 2025.

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. For its part, the EU Parliament called for the abolition of the time change in 2021 in March 2019, but the necessary decisions by a majority of individual states have yet to be taken.

Ukraine has gone further than its European partner countries. As the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reported, 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 Russian time zones.

SDA