The people of Cardiff weigh in on scrapping daylight saving time, which will apply to the Uk until it leaves the EU
The European Commission backed a draft law to abolish seasonal time changes in March 2019, which would apply to the UK, including Wales, during a transitional period preceding Brexit.
After conducting a survey among citizens, the EU Parliament found out 84% of the respondents were in favour to stop the twice-yearly changing of time.
At the moment these changes will apply to the UK, however they can backtrack once Brexit takes place.
As reported by the BBC, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said: “Millions believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that’s what will happen.”
The 28 countries that adopted daylight saving time will have to communicate to the EU whether they wish to permanently use wintertime or summertime by spring 2020.
Cardiff receives an average of seven hours of daylight in winter as opposed to 16 hours of daylight in summer.
Cardiff is the rainiest city of the UK which means it is often covered by clouds, leaving little space for sunny days.
We wondered what the citizens of the wettest city of the UK thought about abolishing daylight saving time.
What do you think about the proposition by the EU to abolish daylight saving time?
Paul Sterio, 53, cycle courier, Cardiff
“As regards the light mornings in the winter, it think that’s a lot safer for school children. Obviously if they abolished it the mornings would be darker.”
Mitchell Carr, 24, quantity surveyor, Birmingham
“Don’t know much about it to be honest.”
