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At the time of this post, it's... 5:00 p.m. CEST. If your clock still says 4:00 p.m., you haven't yet set it forward for daylight saving time ⏰

But how is time actually made and what role does Einstein's theory of relativity play in it? This question is answered in this article on our online portal “Einstein Online”:

➡️ einstein-online.info/en/spotli

Image: Andreas Bauch, PTB; Redesign Daniela Leitner, Einstein Online

Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy.

Most Europeans woke up on Sunday clocks that jumped forward by one hour.

The twice-annual time change has long been contentious and was even voted against in an EU open consultation back in 2018.

mediafaro.org/article/20250330

A wall of clocks. | Image: Cigdem Simsek/Zoonar/picture alliance
DW · Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy.By Rana Taha

“Every year I forget about daylight saving time and I’m completely shocked every time” — “Ogni anno mi dimentico dell’ora legale e sono completamente shockata ogni volta”

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/738801513888032129/

Voi non avete idea di che trip, ma più che altro che palle gonfissime, il viaggio nel tempo di stanotte! Con questo fatto dell’ora legale, signora mia, mi sono completamente sballata… prevedibilmente, ma quasi inspiegabilmente. È come se il cambio d’ora, e quindi l’improvviso sbilanciamento dell’equilibrio spirituale tra orologi di tutta la casa (e di buona parte del mondo) e tempo del giorno reale dettato dalla rotazione della Terra attorno al Sole, fosse in grado di indurre uno sbilanciamento anche nella mia anima, che viene affetta negativamente pure se sto solo a dormire e non ho orari particolari da rispettare.

Quest’anno non mi è successo come lo scorso a dire il vero, nel senso che mi sono ricordata in anticipo del cambiamento, eppure sono stata fatta comunque: per qualche motivo mi sono svegliata alle 13:05. Tardissimo! Avevo in realtà messo la sveglia alle 9:59, e la Mi Band dice che sono stata una ventina di minuti sveglia in quel momento… eppure io non me lo ricordo affatto. Vabbè, zzz insomma.

It's the end of an "era"... the EU has not managed to fix the bug in their clocks which make them display the wrong time for half of the year and I no longer have the energy to keep the normal time all year (a)round.

For anyone not aware: As a self experiment I had all my devices use UTC+1 or the really cool time zone of Brazzaville called WAT since 2019 or so to not have to deal with summer time (daylight savings for USians) but I've run into too many technical issues (mostly with proprietary systems like Microsoft's and the DB) which just piled up and I also started to always calculate the time in my head anyways, especially to allow interaction with other people (which became even harder after corona restrictions were lifted) but also when alone so the mental stress just increased which in the current global situation doesn't help anyone... I just hope that the EU soon implements their plan to get rid of this stupid changing of the clock.

The most annoying thing is that I now have basically the same amount of clocks that can't change the time on their own as devices that do so I have to manually adjust them all :S