Summer time is back: how it affects us and what time we need to set our clocks forward.

Early Sunday morning, summer time will return. At 2:00 a.m., clocks will have to be moved forward one hour to 3:00 a.m., a change that means losing an hour of sleep but lengthening the evenings with more sunlight.

The change comes in a context where Its continuity is in questionThe European Union has kept open the debate on eliminating early seasonal changes for years, a proposal that gained considerable traction in 2018 and that several member states have defended at different times.

The last time change?

In the case of Spain, Pedro Sánchez's government has repeatedly raised the need to end this practice, aiming to simplify schedules and reduce potential effects on health and biological rhythms. "It no longer makes sense. It hardly helps save energy and has a negative impact on people's health and lives," Sánchez said. However, the debate remains stalled at the European level, and there is still no defined timetable for its possible abolition. Meanwhile, the time change remains in effect and will continue to be applied at least in the short term, pending an agreement among the countries of the European Union that will allow them to decide whether to eliminate it permanently or maintain the current system of summer and winter time.