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| The European commission will recommend EU member states abolish daylight saving time, where clocks are advanced by one hour in summer, Jean-Claude Juncker has said. | |
| “We carried out a survey, millions responded and believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that’s what will happen,” he told the German public broadcaster ZDF, adding that the commission planned to decide on the matter later on Friday. | “We carried out a survey, millions responded and believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that’s what will happen,” he told the German public broadcaster ZDF, adding that the commission planned to decide on the matter later on Friday. |
| “I will recommend to the commission that, if you ask the citizens, then you have to do what the citizens say,” said Juncker, the commission president. “We will decide on this today, and then it will be the turn of the member states and the European parliament.” | “I will recommend to the commission that, if you ask the citizens, then you have to do what the citizens say,” said Juncker, the commission president. “We will decide on this today, and then it will be the turn of the member states and the European parliament.” |
| An online poll suggested that more than 80% of Europeans were against the biannual ritual of adjusting clocks forward by one hour in the spring and then back an hour in the autumn, an established practice across most of Europe and North America. | An online poll suggested that more than 80% of Europeans were against the biannual ritual of adjusting clocks forward by one hour in the spring and then back an hour in the autumn, an established practice across most of Europe and North America. |
| EU law requires that citizens in all 28 EU countries move their clocks an hour forward on the last Sunday in March and switch back to winter time on the final Sunday in October. | |
| But Finland, with the most northerly EU national capital, this year called for the EU to halt the practice. | |
| Proponents of daylight saving time say more evening daylight hours in summer help save energy and bolster productivity. | |
| Opponents argue that some people cannot easily adapt to the change and feel it has a short-term negative impact on their health. | Opponents argue that some people cannot easily adapt to the change and feel it has a short-term negative impact on their health. |
| A handful of European countries have stopped switching between summer and winter time, including Russia, Turkey, Belarus and Iceland. | |
| Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report | |
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