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At night, from Saturday to Sunday, the time will change again in Austria. Specifically, the clocks will be set back by one hour. As a result, many people will probably wake up earlier than usual on Sunday. Darkness will also return much earlier in the evening.
From Sunday until March 30, 2025, Austria will be back on standard time. This is because daylight saving time has only been in place since 1980, having previously been in place from 1916 to 1920 and from 1940 to 1948. One of the reasons for its reintroduction was to save energy. The oil crisis in the 1970s led to a sharp rise in energy prices in Europe, and the continent fell into recession. However, many European countries introduced summer time to strengthen the single market.
Discussion about abolition
In 1996, the European Union standardized the summertime regulation, which is why it is now the same in all EU countries. In 2018, the EU Commission proposed abolishing the time changeover. It based this proposal on a survey in which a majority spoke out against the time change. In 2019, the EU Parliament finally decided to abolish it. The individual member states were then to decide whether they wanted to retain summer or winter time. However, no agreement has yet been reached.
While people used to have to set their clocks back an hour manually, this is now often done automatically. On digital devices such as cell phones and computers, standard time is automatically set on Sundays. However, the “automatic date and time setting” setting must be activated. In the case of public clocks in Vienna, the changeover takes place via GPS. Specifically, the changeover takes place at 3.00 a.m. in the night.
- source: diepresse.at/picture: Image by Rosy / Bad Homburg / Germany from Pixabay
