Brussels.- The dawn of this Saturday, October 26 to Sunday, October 27, the citizens of the European Union (EU) will delay their clocks one hour, a regulated change in Community legislation whose deletion is debated since last year.
The night from Saturday to Sunday Europeans will sleep one more hour, since the clocks will be delayed an hour, so that at 3.00 it will be 2.00, in the case of Spain.
In the case of the Canary Islands, this time change also applies and will continue to maintain an hour difference with the peninsular time.
This weekend, three Member States (United Kingdom, Ireland and Portugal) will adapt to the GMT schedule.
In the cases of Spain, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Croatia and the Netherlands will place their watches at GMT + 1.
For its part, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania will delay the time to GMT + 2.
In September of last year the European Commission proposed to end the time change this same 2019, after the public survey that collected a record number of responses (4.6 million) and revealed that mostly (84%) European citizens want End that practice.
Even so, the abolition of the time change must be debated and agreed by the two EU co-legislators, the European Parliament and the Council (the Member States), so that it can come into force, something that is not expected to happen before 2021
In its legislative proposal, the Commission offered the Member States the freedom to decide whether they will be permanently governed by summer or winter time, but urged that they agree "in a coordinated manner between neighboring countries".
Different studies in 2018 indicated that the energy saving due to the time change is minimal while the complaints of citizens for their negative health effects increased.
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