2023-10-29 09:02:36
Mainland France will change time this weekend, moving from summer time to winter time on the night of Saturday October 28 to Sunday October 29. At 3 a.m., it will actually be 2 a.m. France is not the only country to apply this system, far from it. Here are all the other countries that practice time change.
A change sometimes partially applied
If the current time change system has been applied in France since 1976, all EU member states have also practiced it since 1998, by decision of the European Commission. The objective was to facilitate exchanges. The measure was only perfectly harmonized from 2001 and today, other European countries that are not part of the EU also practice the time change.
Further away from us, some countries alternate between winter time and summer time… but not everywhere. This is the case in the United States, where the time change does not apply in Hawaii or Arizona, the site shows. Global Data. Ditto in Canada, where it is applied everywhere except a few provinces of Yukon and Saskatchewan, and in Australia where only four territories do not apply it. Conversely, in Mexico, the time change only applies in the states of Matamoros, Ojinaga, Juarez and Tijuana.
A measure gradually abandoned
In South America, time change was once widely applied, explains Statesman. Today, only Chile (with the exception of Southern Patagonia) and Paraguay still do it. Elsewhere in the world, the time change has also been massively abandoned. According to En-Vols, the reasons given are generally practical.
Today, only 40% of the 140 countries and states that have ever implemented the time change still apply it. This percentage could fall further in the coming years: MEPs voted in 2019 in favor of removing the time change from 2021. This measure was a priority… until the arrival of Covid-19, and therefore has not been still not been acted upon.
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