The early risers begin to see how the days dawn each time later. Raising the blinds and seeing the light from the streetlights in the dark indicates that the cold seasons are coming. The time when there is less hours of light and the activities begin to move to the interiors of the venues.
The Sunday, October 31 the change to winter time will occur throughout the Spanish territory. In this change we must set the clocks back one hour, specifically at 03:00 in the morning of Sunday 31, what it will become 2:00 on the peninsula and, In the Canary Islands, at 2:00 it will be 1:00. That is, and answering the question that arises each year, with this time change we it’s time to turn back the clocks.
This habit occurs every year on the last Sunday in October justifying with an assumption energy saving which aims to make the busiest hours coincide with the hours of natural light.
The change is made in all states that belong to the European Union, applying Directive 2000/84 / CE that makes these countries have summer time from the last Sunday of March, advancing one hour, and that they return to their standard time on the last of October.
Do countries save with the time change?
In 2018 the European Union carried out a non-binding consultation to the citizens of the member states to ask if they wanted to remain in the summer schedule. The result was clearly affirmative, more than 80% of votes They were in favor of staying on this schedule.
To achieve its application in each country, the Commission delegated to the States to decide whether to stick with summer or winter time or if they continued with the time change. The Commission granted a period of time, which ran until 2021, for each country to use its own mechanisms to resolve this issue, but at the same time give a joint response at the level of the European Union.
On Spain, in 2018 the Government created a commission of experts, but this did not reach an agreement. So the last reaction by said commission in March 2019 was that of “keep seasonal change as has been done in the last 45 years, until 2021. “For this reason, on October 31, 2021 we will have to change the time of the clocks once again.
Regarding the question of energy saving, in the report they explain that the opinion of the experts on the seasonal time change it is not “unanimous or conclusive”. But saving is not the only factor to take into account: they were also evaluated health criteria and use of hours of sunshine, in addition to the “foreseeable negative impact on the Tourism sector” if summer time were implemented all year round.
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