This Sunday morning, Luxembourg residents will be able to lie in for an extra hour as clocks are being set back for the winter season.
At 3am, the clocks will be moved back by one hour, to 2am. As is typical for winter, it will accordingly get dark an hour earlier too.
With the change, what is known as "standard time" now applies, including in Luxembourg. Also referred to as Central European Time (CET), it is exactly one hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
The abolition of the clock change has been under discussion within the EU for years. In 2018, the European Commission put forward a legislative proposal to that effect.
The European Parliament approved it, but pushed the end of the clock change, originally planned for 2019, back to 2021. The member states, however, failed to reach agreement, and the plans were put on hold.
The core issue is which time standard should be adopted permanently: standard time or summer time. At the same time, the aim is to prevent confusion within the EU arising from a patchwork of different time zones.
Some EU member states are generally opposed to abolishing the clock change. In Germany, interest in the topic is particularly high.
Of the 4.6 million people who took part in an EU online survey on the matter in 2018, three million came from Germany alone.
