IRELAND: Sunday 30 October 2022 - Time in Ireland will go back 1 hour

Dublin: When Sunday 30 October 2022, 02:00:00 AM local time in Ireland arrives, clocks will be set back 1 hour to Sunday 30 October 2022, 01:00:00 Local Standard Time.

Winter will begin in Ireland and Europe on Sunday 30 October 2022 at 1.00 am GMT. The time is set back by 1 hour on Sunday morning. That means 2 am will be changed to 1.00 am. It is the longest night of the year.

30 Oct 2022 - Daylight Saving Time Ends

When local daylight time is about to reach
Sunday, 30 October 2022, 02:00:00 clocks are turned backward 1 hour to
Sunday, 30 October 2022, 01:00:00 local standard time instead.

Sunrise and sunset will be about 1 hour earlier on 30 Oct 2022 than the day before. There will be more light in the morning. Also called Fall Back and Winter Time.

Most smartphones, tablets and computers will update automatically. However, with the country under lockdown, people can't take much advantage of the extra time.

Will it end soon?

Europeans see the time change as completely meaningless. Therefore, a referendum was held and the will of the people was already known. In February 2019, the European Parliament gave permission to cancel this time change. Hungary is among the 28-member EU bloc, and the EU Parliament debated a motion to allow for the unification of winter and summer time, and finally decided to stop it with a majority of 410 votes to 192. The EU Commission has announced that it will end the time change process at the end of 2021. The vote will not be the final word on the matter, but will be the basis for negotiations with EU countries to produce a final law.

The final clock change was scheduled to take place in spring 2021; However, the proposal backfired as the world grappled with Covid-19.

Do the clocks change elsewhere?

Under EU law, clocks in all member states go back one hour on the last Sunday in October and go forward on the last Sunday in March.

Now there will be a difference of 5.30 hours with Indian time. Countries like China, Japan and India do not follow DST.

In the United States and Canada, DST starts at 2.00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November, while in Australia, the clocks go back on the first Sunday in April and the first Sunday in October.

Why change?

As the Earth orbits the Sun and changes its exposure, the clocks change to make the most of natural light.

In winter, when it's naturally darker, the time goes back an hour, which means an extra hour curled up in bed. However, in summer, the 'great stretch of evenings' is enjoyed, as clocks going forward an hour make longer evenings.

The impact of the change varies by location, with countries that experience more hours of darkness from the equator benefiting more from the system.