Reminder: Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

Just a friendly reminder: clocks in the Czech Republic (and throughout the EU) will shift back an hour on Sunday, October 30, 2016, allowing us to “gain” an extra hour this weekend.

Be sure to set your clocks back in order to avoid showing up to work an hour early on Monday morning. The precise time of the changeover is 3:00 in the morning.

Dislike having to change your clocks in the spring, only to have to set them back in the autumn?

Well, you’re not the only one.

And researchers from the Czech Republic, with other supporters from 22 other countries across the world, want to do something about it.

“With our colleagues from Charles University, we summarized all available literature estimating the savings resulting from the winter and summer times,” said university lecturer Zuzana Havránková Iršová.

“The resulting effect for the Czech Republic is minimal. Colleagues from Česká spořitelna have calculated out that the savings can be valued of one minute of work time of an average Czech.”

“Our initiative to cancel the concept now includes 22 countries,” says Czech MEP Tomáš Zdechovský.

“The pressure to cancel it is greater than ever, and along with other members of the European Parliament, we believe that we can achieve this goal within a short period of time.”