Do Clocks Go Back In Every Country?

Daylight Saving time is quite a unique phenomenon practiced all over the world in many countries. This is done to make the most use of the daylight that is available to us depending on the geography of the place. However, it is important to note that not all of the countries around the world do this as evident by the list shown above. But What is it actually? Well, this basically pertains to all of the clocks within a country being turned one hour forward in spring. And setting the clock back by an exact one hour in autumn. This is basically done to add an hour of daylight in spring and compensate for it in autumn when we already have long days

This extra hour of daylight could then be conveniently used by people to go out with their families as they will be getting free from their office and other official duties an hour ahead. And will ultimately have the time to go on and do what they want to do while the sun is still up. This idea was first proposed by George Hudson from New Zealand, who initially proposed a 2-hour time shift in clocks so that he along with his friends would have more time to go for bug hunting in the summer. A few years later, this idea was appreciated by William Willett who then proposed this in front of the Parliament as a suggestion for saving daylight time of the people of the whole wide nation

Two of the many people who supported this idea were Winston Churchill and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But this didn’t stop the idea from being rejected in the start by the parliament. But eventually, this idea started gaining some popularity and was first materialized by the German Government.

Will UK Stop Changing The Clocks

As the United Kingdome has finally decided to get out of the European Union, it will no longer be bound to change time two times in a year and would be able to decide for itself if it wants to change its clock, so this is a matter yet not resolved, and one which the world will soon see a verdict on.

Will All The European Countries Stop Changing Clocks?

There was a proposition passed in 2018 that suggested the stoppage of all changing times and it is under consideration. This proposal was approved by a vote of 410 to 192 but there is still time for this to be actually materialized as it still would have to be approved by the European Council, which is basically a body of the head of estates of all of the 28 ( now 27 considering that the UK is out ). If it is cleared that hurdle too it would soon be on its way to implementation. And it is expected that the last time change these countries make would be in March or October of 2021 depending on one when the council approves and when this proposition actually becomes law. If you want to know more about this wierd.co.uk has a great article on it, you can give it a look “here“

Hopefully, this article was helpful in clearing some of your queries about DST and why and when countries all around the world change their times throughout the year twice.  And if you want to know why clocks don’t appear in dreams, we have a great article on just that so do give it a click if you are interested “Why don’t clocks appear in dreams? Clocks and dreams!“. And stay tuned to ohmyclock for more interesting articles about clocks