Braunschweig, Germany (dpa/GNA) – Daylight saving time is due to come to an end in Europe in the early hours of Sunday.
Clocks are set back from 3 am to 2 am. Normal time, also known as winter time, then applies again until March 29, 2026.
The signal for the automatic changeover of clocks in Germany, comes from the Federal Institute of Physics and Metrology (PTB) in the northern city of Braunschweig.
The institute’s experts ensure that radio-controlled clocks, station clocks and many industrial clocks are supplied with the signal via a long-wave transmitter called DCF77 in Mainflingen near Frankfurt.
The aim of the change is to make better use of daylight in the shorter days of the winter in the northern hemisphere, while critics doubt this results in energy savings, as is often argued.
GNA