Clock ticks for Europe to change daylight time!

• Brussels would propose scrapping an European Union law requiring member states to change their clocks.

The European Union (EU) said on Friday it would propose a legal change that would end the ritual of switching between summer and winter time, leaving it up to governments across the bloc to agree on whether to permanently use summer time or winter time.

The proposal comes after a survey found 84 per cent of 4.6 million citizens across the EU's 28 member states opposed changing the clocks ahead in the summer or back in the winter or just opposed switching either way. In response, the EU's chief executive, Jean-Claude Juncker, said Brussels would propose scrapping an European Union law requiring member states to change their clocks. "Millions ... believe that summertime should be all the time," Juncker said.

Since 1996, European Union law has been moving clocks forward an hour on the last Sunday in March and back an hour on the final Sunday in October.