The EU is urging countries to decide by next April which time zone they want to be in Yui Mok/Press AssociationBritain could stop the biannual tradition of changing the clocks and stay on British Summer Time if suggestions from government officials go ahead. The move would follow EU proposals urging countries to decide which time zone they wanted to be in by next April. In August the bloc said that 84 per cent of 4.6 million respondents from the 28 member states backed plans to abandon the clock changes in a consultation. Emails released after a freedom of information request show that days after the EU’s announcement, officials from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy contacted counterparts in the Northern Ireland Department for the Economy to discuss options. There was confusion over whether the directive would apply to Britain when it left the…

Source: The Times December 27, 2018 00:22 UTC