Plea for the winter season
The EU Parliament wants to abolish the time change. But which system should then apply permanently?
Would you voluntarily live in the wrong time zone for seven months of the year? That's exactly what we're doing with the annual changeover to daylight saving time. Every year on the last weekend in March we dutifully put the clocks forward one hour - and back again at the end of October.
The time change is not particularly popular. In a non-representative survey by the EU Commission in 2018, over 80 percent of 4.6 million participating EU citizens spoke out against them. The EU Parliament then voted to abolish it in March 2019. However, each individual member state can decide until April 2020 whether their own population should live permanently in summer or winter time in the future. According to this EU survey, most Germans want summer time all year round. The decision is still pending in the Bundestag, but the responsible Minister for Economic Affairs, Peter Altmaier, also tends to use daylight saving time - from a scientific point of view, this is a wrong decision.
Maybe it's the term: "Summertime and the livin' is easy", the song by Ella Fitzgerald still gets under your skin. The term "summer time" could tempt many to think of the most beautiful time of the year, of warmth, colorful nature, vacation, beach or beer garden. Involuntarily, the eternal summer time receives something extremely positive …
