Europe Should Be on Summertime Forever, EU Commission Says

A row of terrace houses is silhouetted against a sunset in London, U.K., on Sunday, April 19, 2009. The pound 's 20 percent drop in the past year made Britain the first choice when Schroders Plc started buying real estate in Europe last month.Photographer: JASON ALDEN

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By Martin Sobczyk and Nikos Chrysoloras

August 31, 2018 at 8:07 AM UTC

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August 31, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC

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The European Union should scrap twice-yearly time changes and keep its clocks on what is currently summertime, said the bloc’s executive arm.

On Friday, the European Commission unveiled the results of a public consultation on the merits of the decades-old practice of capitalizing on natural daylight by putting clocks forward by 60 minutes between late March and late October, and then switching back for the winter.