When will the 2021 clock change take place? This year too, we will move the clock twice: namely, we will have the clock move to summer time 2021 in March and the clock move to winter time 2021 in October. Apparently, the clock has not ticked over yet!
When will the clock change in 2021? This year, the first movement of the clock, clock change to summer time 2021, waiting for the last Sunday in March, March 28, 2021. Then, at 2:00 in the morning, we will move the hands of the clock forward one hour, i.e. to 3:00.
Second movement of the clock 2021, clock change to winter time 2021, and we are waiting for the last Sunday in October, so we will move the hands from 3:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. 31 October 2021.
Moving the clock to 2021 will therefore be, and as always, twice!
Abolition of clock movement in 2021 unlikely
The probability that we will stop moving the clock in the EU in 2021 is very small. Like the rest of the world, the EU has been preoccupied with the health and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Negotiations have not yet begun in the European Council, which makes it highly unlikely that the new rules - even if quickly agreed - will come into force this year.
So that you don't think that all the countries in the world move the clock: Iceland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Russia, China, India, South America and the Republic of South Africa the clocks never move, but are always in winter time.
"Hitler's Hour"
It is sometimes claimed that DST suggested Benjamin Franklin in a letter to the editors of the Paris Daily. Anyway, the article was snarky, and Franklin wasn't suggesting Daylight Savings Time, but rather that people should get up earlier and go to bed earlier. The first to really propose the switch to summer time was an English builder William Willet. The first country to listen to him and start moving the clock was Canada (1908). It was the first in Europe Germany (1916), followed by France, Great Britain and Austria. During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler also used daylight saving time, so even today many people call the movement of the clock hands "Hitler's Hour". Although summer time was abolished after the Second World War, it was reintroduced due to the energy crisis in the 1960s and 1970s.
Deadly movement of the clock
The West Bank was still on daylight saving time in September 1999, but Israel moved its clocks to winter time. Terrorists from the West Bank prepared time bombs and smuggled them into Israel. However, because they were not aware of the change in time or were completely confused by it, they the bombs exploded one hour ahead of schedule. Three terrorists who planned to kill 2,000 people died.
Are we moving the clock to 2021 for the last time?
Many people hate the clock change when daylight saving time starts in March, but the European Union seemed ready to do more than complain about it. Thus, in March 2019, the European Parliament voted for the complete abandonment of changing the clock and set a two-year transitional period.
So the European continent, full of people who are tired of changing their clocks, is set to change their clocks for the last time this fall. Countries that decided on summer time would finally "jump forward" in March, while those that prefer winter time would change their last hour in October.
As European experience shows, killing "summer time" is not easy. The main culprit for the delay is undoubtedly the pandemic, possibly with a small side effect of Brexit. At the same time, the European Commission must also make a precise assessment of the consequences of the abolition of daylight saving time. Until then, we'll keep moving the pointers. So, in all likelihood, a few more years?!
