Citizens turn their clocks back an hour on the last Sunday of October! DST returns for 2024 and will be held at 4:00 AM. in the early hours of October 27th.
The relevant announcement of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport states:
"We remind you that, on Sunday, October 27, 2024, the application of the summer time measure expires, in accordance with Directive 2000/84 of the European Parliament and of the Council of EE 19/01/2001, regarding the summer time provisions. The hands of the clocks must be moved back one hour, ie from 04:00 AM. at 03:00 am'.
But why does this change happen every year? According to important sources, the last time change was scheduled to take place in March 2021, leaving the choice to the member states of the European Union to observe one of the two zones (winter or summer), but it did not take place in the end. An important role for this decision was played, among others, by the "effects" of the time change on the biological clock, such as the difficulty of adapting to everyday life.
For the record.. How was the time change established and by whom?
Daylight Saving Time (DST) is the time that a state chooses to adopt for a certain period of the year. This change is one hour ahead of solar time and is based on a system that aims to make better use of daylight to save energy. It must be emphasized that a certain part of the world's population decides to turn the hands of their clocks every six months, as almost all Asian and African countries choose not to participate in this.
The idea of the change is attributed to Benjamin Franklin from 1784, so that more natural light would be available during the summer months. A century later, the idea was championed by William Willett, a British builder, who had written on the subject in 1907 under the title Waste of Daylight, but ultimately failed to persuade the British government to embrace his view.
Now the existing time change, as we apply it today, was based on a more scientific approach according to the New Zealand entomologist, George Hudson. He noticed that the longer daylight hours in the summer months helped him collect more insects more easily. Thus, he made the relevant proposal in 1895, which was accepted.
