At four o’clock in the morning the hands of the clock go back one hour – to three o’clock. This migration during the winter in Ukraine should be the last, but the situation is still uncertain.
Tonight Ukraine switches to winter time – at 4.00 the clocks will be turned back one hour, that is, at 3.00. So, this night actually lasts an hour.
Modern watches, smartphones, laptops and other devices change the time automatically, but mechanical watches have to be changed manually.
The current winter migration should be the last in Ukrainian history, but whether it will happen is still unclear.
As you know, on July 16, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada finally canceled the transition between summer and winter. The adopted law establishes a permanent time standard in Ukraine, UTC+2.
However, on July 17, the public organization Academy of Higher School Sciences called on President Vladimir Zelensky to veto the law. The request is explained by the fact that the transition to winter time means that at the end of June in Kyiv it will be dawn at 03:00, instead it will be dark at 20:00 (now at 04:00 and 21:00 , respectively). According to experts, this will significantly increase the costs of institutions, businesses and households for electric lighting at nighttime in spring, summer and autumn.
The time allotted for vetoing the law has passed, but Zelensky has not signed it. BBC News Ukraine, citing sources, wrote that the president will not sign the law. The reason for this decision is that during the discussion of this law, experts “calculated and saw the disadvantages for the economy – the losses reached several billion.”
Note that on March 26, 2019, the European Parliament voted to abolish the seasonal clock change starting in 2021. Ukraine then announced that they intend to do the same. The corresponding bill was voted on in the first reading on March 3, 2021.
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Source: korrespondent
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