Sun Saturday October 26 Sunday October 27 Wake up time (in Brussels) 8:24 a.m. 7:26 a.m. Bedtime (in Brussels) 6:27 p.m. 5:25 p.m. Time change: some tips to help our animals get through the transition smoothly
Many electronic devices change the time automatically. However, if you need to manually adjust some devices, here are official Belgian time to update you.
We switched to summer time on March 31. Conversely, we had moved the hands forward an hour that day.
An alternation between summer and winter time criticized
The summer time/winter time alternation has been applied in Belgium since 1977. At the time, these time adjustments were decided to save energy, since the population benefited from daylight for longer. day. Since then, these time changes have been widely criticized, with detractors accusing them in particular of disrupting biological rhythms.
Changing the time twice a year: why it’s no longer really useful
In 2018, the European Commission decided to look into the subject by proposing to eliminate the alternation and keep only one hour. But in 2021, she indicated there would be no change “in the years to come”.
