Clocks go back one hour tonight

Clocks should be set back one hour on Sunday as daylight saving time ends, despite a 2018 decision to abolish the time change in Europe.

Europeans will gain one more hour of sleep on Sunday as the time change will turn clocks back one hour at 4am, thus showing 3am after the change.

The last time change was scheduled for March 2021, when European Union member states were asked to choose between winter or summer time.

But the global coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine set back the plan.

The European Commission proposed ending the practice in 2018 after an EU-wide opinion survey showed a large majority in favour of doing so. The survey generated 4.6 million responses, with 84 percent of respondents wanting to end seasonal clock changes.

In March 2019, the European parliament voted in favour of abolishing the practice of switching the clocks, first introduced in World War I to save energy by prolonging evening daylight in summer.