29 October 2018
Time to change – but only to ‘wintertime’
by Johanna Meijer, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Oxford University, UK
and Russell Foster, Oxford University, UK
In August, the European Union voted to abolish the bi-annual change in clock time. Whether the continent will be in constant wintertime or summertime remains to be decided. In a public international consultation that took place, a majority of the 4.6 million respondents voted for constant “summer time”. Whilst the abolition of the spring and autumn clock change will relief millions of people from a bi-annual burden, constant “summertime” is not the sensible option.