Back in 2018, the European Union said that it was high time to do away with twice-yearly clock changes and stick to one timezone all year round.

The EU’s executive branch, the Commission, responded to a pan-European survey that showed more than 80 per cent of respondents favoured scrapping the system, which was first deployed by Germany during World War I.

A fair majority of the survey’s replies were actually from Germans. No surprise, given the country’s central and northern location within the Central European Timezone, which means that evenings draw in earlier.

The Commission did not propose such a radical change just based on what one survey says, of course, as it also referenced numerous studies over the years that have suggested factors like road safety and even human health would be improved by ditching the clock changes.

According to the Commission’s plan, each of the bloc’s 27 countries would have to decide by March 2019 whether to stay on winter...