Meanwhile neighbouring Switzerland also wants to end the changing of the clocks. The ministry said it wanted to prevent different time zones and “to ensure a harmonised internal market”.įor that to happen, it was waiting on the Europe-wide impact report. “The EU Commission has not yet presented such an impact assessment,” the ministry said. The economics ministry said in October 2020 that the German government had not yet decided whether it would prefer permanent summer or winter time. A total of 24 percent said they were irritable or tired in the days after the time change, and 26 percent had trouble falling asleep or sleeping through the night.Ī major question is which time zone Germany – and other countries – would adopt. Meanwhile, a KKH survey provided a similar picture. In a survey published last week by the health insurance company DAK-Gesundheit, 78 per cent were in favour of abolishing the time change, and 30 percent of respondents said they had experienced health or psychological problems after the clocks changed. In Germany, public opinion is resoundingly in favour of scrapping the hour change.Ī recent opinion poll by YouGov found 71 percent of Germans are in favour of abolishing the practise of changing the clocks in spring and autumn. What do people in Germany think about the clock changes? However, following the vote, the Parliament specified that each EU member state would decide whether they would keep summer time or winter time.ĭue to Covid, arrangements to scrap the clock changes were put on the back burner in most countries, including Germany.
In 2019 lawmakers in the European Parliament voted by a large majority – 410 MEPs against 192 – in favour of stopping the changing of the hour from 2021. The idea was that it would save energy by making the most of sunlight hours. Germany introduced the switch between summer and winter time in 1980 after the global oil crisis. In place in the EU since 1976, the modern version of the twice-yearly changing of the clocks has been controversial for some time – and it is very unpopular among Germans. That happened despite lots of talk about the seasonal clock changes being abolished in Germany, and the rest of the EU. In the early hours of Sunday, October 31st, the clocks went back by one hour giving people a lie-in. Germany – like the rest of Europe – moved to ‘winter time’ at the weekend.
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