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Winter time 2026: the clocks go back on Sunday 25 October – and why the EU still hasn't managed to abolish the change
At 03:00 on Sunday 25 October the clocks go back to 02:00, and we get back the hour we lost in March. Eight years after the European Commission proposed ending the change, nothing has been decided. Here are the dates, the state of play in the EU, what the science says – and what would happen to morning light in Oslo.