LThe transition from summer time to winter time will take place on the weekend of October 26, 2024, during the night from Saturday to Sunday. At 3 a.m. Sunday, the clock hands will move back one hour to 2 a.m.
The change will result in a gain of an hour of sleep and the sun will also set earlier in the evening. Standard time will extend until March 30, 2025, before summer time returns.
The summer time/winter time alternation has been applied in Belgium since 1977. At the time, these time adjustments were decided to save energy, since the population benefited from daylight for longer. day. Since then, these time changes have been widely criticized, with detractors accusing them in particular of disrupting biological rhythms.
.In 2018, the European Commission decided to look into the subject by proposing to eliminate the alternation and keep only one hour. But in 2021, she indicated there would be no change “in the years to come”.
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