At the end of October, we will switch from summer to winter time in Poland. Research has shown that many people have a negative attitude towards official regulations in this area. However, everything indicates that the next time change will not be the last. This is related to the decision of the European Commission, which imposed specific obligations regarding time changes on all EU member states.
Residents of the European Union want to abandon the time change
Although many people suggest giving up the time change, this has not happened yet. A few years ago, nearly 5 million inhabitants of the European Union were asked about the issue of time change, and as many as 84 percent of them opted to give up changing their clocks.
EU institutions started work that was supposed to be a reaction to the results of these studies. However, it was not possible to reach a common position “neither on giving up time changes, nor on choosing a time option, nor on changing or choosing a specific time zone or group of time zones.”
Therefore, in 2021, the European Commission issued a communication on time changes in 2022-2026. He obliged the EU member states to prepare regulations “on the basis of which the current arrangements will be continued with changes in time.”
The time change applicable throughout the European Union takes place twice a year. We always switch to summer time on the last Sunday in March. In Poland, the time change procedure is regulated by a regulation of the Prime Minister.
Poles also do not want to change the time
Although the time change, introduced permanently in 1977, was intended to standardize and improve the cooperation of European economies, there has been an ongoing discussion for years questioning its questionable justification. In 2018, research conducted by CBOS showed that 78.3 percent Poles are against cyclical changing of clocks. 74 percent respondents, in turn, decided that they would prefer to live permanently according to summer time. When the survey was repeated a year later, 79.2 percent were in favor of abandoning the current double time change system.
Source: Gazeta
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