Dark again earlier
The clocks turn back an hour on Sunday
Daylight saving time ends next Sunday: clocks are set at 3 a.m. to 2 a.m. The so-called normal time applies to the next five months. The time change fix has been discussed for a long time.
Watches will be rolled back one hour on Sunday evening. Then the so-called standard time of five months applies. (archive photo)
Regarding the change of time in the fall, it is often said that the clocks change from summer time to winter time at the end of October. According to the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (Metas), there is only standard time and daylight saving time. The standard time in Switzerland has been Central European Time for a good 125 years.
Daylight saving time has been in effect in Switzerland since 1981. Since 1996, people in all European Union countries have been moving their clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and one hour on the last Sunday of October. On Sunday, March 26, 2023, the time will then revert to daylight saving time.
The time change is controversial
The change between standard time and daylight saving time is controversial in this country and in the European Union. In March 2019, the EU Parliament called for the time change to be abolished in 2021. So far, however, not all necessary decisions at the EU level have been taken by all individual countries.
According to Metas, Switzerland is following developments in neighboring countries and will carefully consider whether any adjustment to the time regulation is beneficial and beneficial to Switzerland. She said that for now, the current time regulation is applied.
A federal grassroots initiative to abolish the time change failed about two years ago. The idea of the committee about the national advisor to the first vice president in Lucerne Yvette Eastermann was that CEST should be applied in Switzerland all year round in the future.
With the introduction of Central European Time and also with the introduction of the time change, the Federal Council and Parliament decided on a time organization in accordance with the regulations of the neighboring countries, primarily for economic reasons. If there were different regulations than those in neighboring countries, then Switzerland would become an island of time – with consequences, particularly in commercial transactions, transport, tourism and communications. (SDA)
Tips for surviving the changing times
On October 30, it’s time again: winter time starts at 3 a.m. and the clock is an hour late. So this night is an hour longer than usual – to the delight of all the morning protests.
On October 30, it’s time again: winter time starts at 3 a.m. and the clock is an hour late. So this night is an hour longer than usual – to the delight of all the morning protests.
7 mnemonic bridges, To remember the changes of time
- In the spring you put garden furniture in front of the door. In the fall they are brought back to the shed.
- In the spring one wears more light clothes. In the fall, this decreases again and people wear more fabrics again.
- Rule 2-3-2 (based on the RS-232 computer interface): In the spring, the time is changed from 2 to 3 in the morning. In the fall from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m.
- In winter the temperatures are in the minus range, and in summer they are in the plus range again.
- In the spring, when it gets warmer again, the time stretches – the clock is thrown. In the fall, when it gets colder again, time shrinks – the clock turns back.
- To all English speakers: Spring forward, back off!
- And very stupid: in the summer the clock will be displayed – both with the letter “o”.
Remember that time changes more easily with the mnemonic technique.
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- In the spring you put garden furniture in front of the door. In the fall they are brought back to the shed.
- In the spring one wears more light clothes. In the fall, this decreases again and people wear more fabrics again.
- Rule 2-3-2 (based on the RS-232 computer interface): In the spring, the time is changed from 2 to 3 in the morning. In the fall from 3 a.m. to 2 a.m.
- In winter the temperatures are in the minus range, and in summer they are in the plus range again.
- In the spring, when it gets warmer again, the time stretches – the clock is thrown. In the fall, when it gets colder again, time shrinks – the clock turns back.
- To all English speakers: Spring forward, back off!
- And very stupid: in the summer the clock will be displayed – both with the letter “o”.
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