Daylight saving time ends on Sunday night. Three hours after midnight, the clocks will move back to 02:00, making the night an hour longer. Standard Central European Time, for which the designation winter was adopted, will be valid until the last Sunday of March next year, i.e. five months. People have to move wrist or wall clocks themselves, the time in electronic devices such as telephones or computers will change automatically.
The time change will affect dozens of long-distance night trains of Czech Railways (ČD), which will wait at stations in the middle of the night for departure according to the new time. Regional trains will not be affected by the one-hour wait, as they do not run during the time change.
According to the plan of the European Commission, the mandatory change of time should have ended the year before in the entire European Union. However, the member states have not agreed on which of the times used will apply permanently. Also, according to surveys, there is no consensus among people on the change of time. When choosing year-round time, according to experts, the zone time that applies in winter would be more favorable for a person.
Daylight saving time was first introduced in the Czech lands in 1915 and 1916. It returned during the Second World War in 1940 and lasted until 1949. The Czechs started moving their clocks forward for the third time during the energy crisis at the end of the 1970s. Until the mid-1990s, summer time lasted half a year in the Czech Republic. Since 1996, the republic has joined EU customs, and the time shift lasts seven months.
Daylight saving time was originally introduced to save energy, but is now negligible. On the contrary, experts point out that changing time has negative consequences for human health.
Source: www.tyden.cz
