Tomorrow at 2 a.m. we move the time, and in France they have chosen to keep daylight saving time for good

So this year, at 2am on the night of Saturday 29 to Sunday 30 March 2025, 60 minutes will have to be added to the legal time. Then it will be 3 hours. We will lose an hour of sleep... but we will also suddenly gain an hour of natural light at the end of the day. Smartphones or any other connected device will of course switch to daylight saving time automatically, without any intervention.

This time change brings us back to two hours ahead of world time compared to one hour after the change to standard time. Universal time, which our elected representatives are playing yo-yo with in order to achieve European harmonisation and to combat artificial lighting. This World Time corresponds to the mean solar time taking into account the correction for longitude (4 minutes per degree). Decree of 8 March 2017 To this end, the regulatory provisions on French legal time have been updated in France.

President of the European Commission in  press release of 12 September 2018 he's proposed to stop everything in 2019. How and for how long? Each EU Member State had to notify the European Commission of its intention to apply summer or winter time permanently. However, member states are then advised to "coordinate their choices in order to preserve the proper functioning of the internal market and avoid the fragmentation that could arise if some Member States decide to continue to apply the provisions on summer time while others abolish them".

In France, it is voted to definitely keep daylight saving time. During a public consultation of the French people on the time change, conducted by the National Assembly, 59 % voted in favour of daylight saving time.

Finally, in March 2019, the European Parliament approved the end of the time change. However, the directive, which was due to be adopted by the Council at the end of 2020 and then transposed by Member States, has still not been confirmed. Pandemic Covid-19 gave money to a project that is not expected to be discussed in the near future.

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