Ukraine on the night of Sunday, Oct. 27, switches to “winter time,” moving the clock one hour back, according to the press service of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Agriculture.
Pursuant to Cabinet’s resolution No. 509 from May 13, 1996, each year on the last Sunday in October at 04:00 a.m. the clock is moved back one hour.
Each year on the last Sunday of March at 03:00 the clock switches to “summer time,” with the clock moved one hour forward.
Currently, clocks are being moved ahead in more than 70 countries. The countries of the European Union, most of which are located in the UTC+ 1 belt, and the smaller ones in UTC and UTC+ 2, also switch to “winter time”. However, in August 2018, the European Commission made a recommendation to abandon the seasonal time change in 2019, so that member states could decide whether to abandon this mechanism. The recommendation was adopted based on a mass survey among citizens of EU countries, which resulted in 80 percent supporting the abandonment of “winter time.”
In Europe, Iceland, Russia and Belarus do not switch to “winter time.”
In Ukraine, in 2011, a resolution was adopted to abolish the transition to “winter time,” but it was later cancelled.
