Winter time in the USA is to be abolished
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The USA wants to say goodbye to the time change.
The US Senate unanimously passed a law to introduce a uniform time all year round.
The law is intended to establish summertime as a permanent time, making a changeover twice a year unnecessary.
The bill has yet to be approved by the US House of Representatives and US President Joe Biden.
If approved, it could be rolled out in the fall of 2023, meaning Americans would have to reset their clocks three more times by then.
The time change has been a point of contention for years - also in Germany.
Daylight saving time was introduced here in 1980.
On the night of March 27, 2022, daylight saving time will be changed again.
Turning the clock forward in the spring should help save energy during the lighter months of the year, but the actual effects are limited.
In addition, the change between summer and winter time causes problems for some people's health.
dispute in the EU
Many people have therefore been calling for an end to the time change for a long time.
However, it is not yet foreseeable when the European Union will actually implement such plans.
In 2018, the head of the EU Commission at the time, Jean-Claude Juncker, announced: "The time change should be abolished." First the end was planned for 2019, then for 2021. Then the decision was postponed: because they have whether they want summer or winter time permanently 27 EU member states not yet clarified.
The interests of the individual nations are very different.
Without summer time, it would be light as early as 3 a.m. in eastern EU countries such as Poland. With permanent summer time, on the other hand, the sun would rise very late in the west in winter: in Spain’s capital Madrid, for example, only after 9:30 a.m. at times.
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