Daylight savings metre could presently be a thing of the past   in the European Union ( EU ) .   An international survey found a large legal age of EU citizen are in favor of nixing the bi - annual ritual meant to take reward of daylight as the season change .

The continent - widesurveyfound 84 percent of some 4.6 million respondents are against alter their clocks in the bound and summertime months . This has prompted   the European Commission to reconsider adirectivethat makes fellow member states change their clocks onward on the last Sunday of March and set   it back on the last Sunday of October .

daytime savings all started during the height of the First World War , when the German Empireset its timeforward by an hour to conserve push and take advantage of longer days . In the decades following , countries waver on implementing it . However , following the1970s oil crisis ,   Member States were require to adopt the fourth dimension changes . Today , the continent is separate up into three different sentence zones : Western or Greenwich , Central , and Eastern .

In its consultation , the Commissionnotesthat " at this juncture , grounds is only conclusive on one head : that allowing uncoordinated time changes between Member States "   makes trade across border more high-priced and inconvenient .

Overall , energy savings from day rescue is fringy and varies count ongeographic location . northerly EUstates , for lesson , have darker wintertime and brighter summertime with inadequate Night , while the southernmost parts barely experience day modification between the seasons .

“ The mission regularly receives feedback from citizen on the summertime subject , which often refers to what they perceive as damaging health impacts of the riotous time alteration touch to sleep deprivation and other kinds of minus consequences , ” wrote the commission .   “ However , some also ask that the current arrangement be maintained , as they believe it has positive effects . ”

Studies on the wellness implications of modify the time each class are mainly inconclusive and have get hold bothpositiveandnegative outcome . Further , technical advances such as contrived lighting and automated system have made the agricultural benefits of daylight saving meter   obsolete .

The modification needs commendation from internal governments and the European Parliament to become law , after which point each res publica will be able-bodied to settle whether they desire to stay in summertime or wintertime time .