03/27/2022 07:00 (act 03/27/2022 13:00)
In Europe, the hands of the clock are advanced from 2:00 to 3:00 and therefore to daylight saving time. ©APA/HERBERT PFARRHOFER
During Sunday night, the time was changed to Central European Daylight Saving Time (MESZ). At 2 o’clock the radio-controlled clocks jumped to three o’clock, the others had to be manually advanced by one hour.
The return to standard time (CET) takes place on the last weekend of October. It is still unclear how the abolition of the time change in the EU will continue – by itself decided. The ball is still in the hands of the EU’s Council of Ministers, and the transport ministers are responsible.
Time change: clocks are rotated one hour before daylight saving time
As the abolition of the annual time change is still on hold in Brussels, the daylight saving time change was extended in February by the Austrian government’s Council of Ministers as a formal act until 2026. In March 2019, the European Parliament voted by a large majority to abolish daylight saving time by 2021 – or a year later if there were difficulties for the domestic market. However, most member states still need to agree to this before this can become a reality.