Overview
- The switch to daylight saving time, which occurs Sunday at 2 a.m., moves clocks from 2 to 3 and starts Central European Summer Time through October 25.
- Germany’s national metrology institute PTB said its experts checked the DCF77 long‑wave time signal so radio‑controlled clocks and many systems pick up the legal time without errors.
- Health and traffic studies link the spring change to lost sleep, lower alertness, a brief rise in fatal crashes, and a short‑term increase in heart attack risk.
- Night‑shift workers lose one working hour during the change, and DGB Rechtsschutz says the 2–3 a.m. duty on March 29 lapses with no make‑up time, while pay rules depend on contracts or wage deals.
- EU plans to end the biannual switch remain stalled because states cannot agree on a permanent time, with a Commission study underway and surveys showing about four in five people want the change scrapped.