EU Nations Consider Ending Seasonal Time Changes in 2021
Onlookers sit in Greenwich Park to watch the evening sun set.
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European Union countries may scrap summertime clock changes as of 2021, according to a draft legislative proposal seen by Bloomberg.
The draft, circulated to national delegations last week, foresees a ban “preventing member states from applying different seasonal time arrangements by changing their standard time more than once during the year.” Member states wishing to remain on what is currently their summertime, should move their clocks forward on March 28, 2021, while those wishing to keep wintertime can change their clocks back for the last time on Oct. 31 of the same year, according to the memo.