Europe Starts Daylight Saving Time on March 28, 2010

[Amnerys]

<p><span ><p>Daylight saving time, also known as “summer time”, will take place in most of Europe on Sunday, March 28, 2010. The clocks will move one hour forward at 1am (01:00) UTC on this date. It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October each year.</p><p>Not all European countries will turn the clocks forward at the same time. Here is a <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2010.html">list of countries that observe Daylight Saving Time in 2010</a>, which includes countries in Europe!</p></span></p>

[dawy]

<p>That time of year again<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/136dd33cba83140c7ce38db096d05aed.gif" border="0" />it goes so fast</p>

[Ansek]

<p>Historically, at least in the UK, DST made sense because it allowed for lighter mornings which helped the farming community. Nowadays tho... For most of the first world DST is just an annoying anachronism. I'd quite happily see it got rid of, for my part.</p><p>Every year since, well since we joined the EU in the early seventies tbh, there's been calls around this time of year to move us from GMT in winter and BST (GMT+1) in summer to CET (Central European Time - GMT +1) in winter and CEST (GMT+2) in summer to bring us on the same timetable as most of mainland Europe and mostly people say "meh, whatever" but it does seem particularly vocal this year.</p>