The seasonal change of watches has been difficult to eliminate. Few appreciate this change to watches because the time areas do not match solar time in many EU countries.
The end of the seasonal time change was not easy, especially for political reasons. This Sunday, Europeans will lose an hour again with the progress of watches.
It is something that few people appreciate, since one shows a survey 2018, according to which 84% of EU citizens are against this phenomenon.
According to scientific studies, change of time can disturb the alignment of our body with sunlight, which can cause sleep deprivation and affect various diseases.
Changing the clock is also contrary to the original objective of this practice, saving energy, as explained by Ariadna Güell Sans, deputy director of the time use initiative, Euronews.
“It was shown that it was wrong, so it no longer helps us save energy, since it was created at a time when Internet did not exist, when energy consumption was quite different from what it is now,” he says.
In fact, the European Commission tried to finish the semiannual watch changes with a directive presented in September 2018. European Parliament Approved for a large majority and with a broad political consensus: 410 votes in favor, 192 against and 51 abstentions.
But countries have not reached an agreement and blocked the proposal until today.
Governments are discouraged to act independently on these issues, since the EU intends that any change be coordinated between countries to protect the functioning of the single market.
Lithuania can raise the problem again during its presidency of the European Union Council in 2027, respectively with a advisor to President Gypsy Nausėda.
“We still believe that it is possible to find a coordinated solution,” said a spokeswoman for the European Commission when asked about it, adding: “We encourage new discussions to find a solution, but we believe that it is better for Member States to decide with each other.”
Finishing time is not the end of the problem
However, ending the change of time means making a decision: keeping winter or summer?
This is also a true political problem, since time zones have always been influenced by political decisions.
During World War II, Germany imposed its time zone on the busy countries of France and Beneux, while dictator Francisco Franco decided to align Spain with the German of Adolf Hitler.
More recently, the Ukrainian Parliament Cancel The change of summer time only to avoid alignment during the middle of the year with the normal time of Moscow (UTC+3), which Russia had imposed on its territories occupied in Ukraine.
These elections do not necessarily coincide with the alignment of “solar time” called.
ADVERTISING“We need to be as aligned as possible with our natural time zone. To say it in a simple way, it means that when there are 12 hours on my watch, the sun is at its highest point of the day,” explains Ariadna Güell Sans.
This is not the case of Western European countries, whose watches are significantly advanced during solar time. The result, especially in the summer, is dawn and late ergorreos, which significantly affect daily routine in countries like Spain.
That is why the initiative on the use of time for a healthy society proposes a radical change with four meridian -based time.
United Kingdom, France, Spain and Benelux countries would be under the same time zone as Western Europe, which corresponds to the current average time of Greenwich.
ADVERTISINGIreland and Portugal will be aligned with Iceland in the time zone of the Azores Islands, an hour late, while all central Europe and Greece will have an advanced hour and Eastern Europe, including Baltic countries, they will have two hours in advance.
However, this new configuration would put new problems: Northern Ireland and Ireland, for example, would have different hours, which would probably lead to a new political problem.
