It was already hinted at several months ago: the CEST will be put to the test. An online survey has now been published by the responsible EU Commission.
What it's about: Central European Summer Time, or CEST for short or simply called summer time, was last reintroduced in Germany and Austria in 1980. The EU summer time regulation requires that clocks change twice a year to take into account the shift in the phase of daylight and to make better use of the available daylight in a given period. Daylight saving time has always been intended to save energy during the summer months and to adapt the day to the lighting conditions. In this discussion there were always more or less weighty arguments for both sides, so that the CEST ended up being put to the test.
Even though there has often been euphoric talk about the end of summer time, we still have to wait and see the result: the EU Commission is currently only supposed to closely examine the advantages and disadvantages of summer time. Of course, one possible goal is for summer time to disappear, but how and when is not defined.
Online voting
On the EU website, citizens of the European Union can now vote on how they feel about CEST and the time change. The Commission would like to gather the views of European citizens, stakeholders and Member States on possible changes to the current summer time regime.
Of course, it is not yet clear what relevance this result has. After receiving requests from citizens, the European Parliament and some EU Member States, the Commission has decided to examine the functioning of the current summer time regime and assess whether it should be changed or maintained.
In this context, the Commission would like to seek the views of European citizens, stakeholders and Member States on the current EU summer time regime and possible changes to this regime. The online questionnaire is available in all official EU languages (except Irish) and can be answered in any EU language. However, it is noted that English is the preferred language in the answers.
EU citizens can vote at this link . However, we would also like to point out at this point that the corresponding server had problems (Friday, July 6, 2018) and was not accessible at this time. Reasons for this are not given.
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