Clocks back this weekend

Switzerland reverts to winter time on Sunday morning, with clocks going back one hour at 3am

The change gives us an extra hour on Saturday night and runs until the last Sunday of March 2027.

Switzerland adopted the twice-yearly switch in 1981 to avoid becoming a time island in Europe, following the 1970s oil crisis.

A growing number of sleep researchers now back scrapping the change in favour of permanent summer time, though they warn that would leave winter mornings darker 

 

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