What does the time change mean for rail traffic?

What does the time change mean for rail traffic?

On the Sunday night, it is still the hour: the summer time ends and the winter time begins. The fact that the clocks are put back at two in the morning to three in the morning requires additional work, especially at the ÖBB.

580 clocks of the station must be put back to Sunday evening. An image: VOLKER WEIHBOLD

For pbadengers to arrive as planned, 18 trains will stop tonight and continue their journey at the right pace.

For example, anyone who drives on the 246 night train to Bregenz stops briefly at a station between Vöcklabruck and Salzburg.

The following trains are also concerned: NJ 237 (Vienna-Venice), NJ 236 (Venice-Vienna), NJ 247 (Bregenz-Vienna), NJ 464 (Graz-Zurich), NJ 465 (Zurich-Graz), NJ 466 ( Vienna) Zurich-Vienna), NJ 40463 (Munich-Venice), NJ 40236 (Venice-Munich), EN 40462 (Budapest-Zurich), EN 40467 (Zurich-Budapest), EN 462 (Budapest-Munich)), EN 463 (Munich, Budapest)

In the railway stations also, the night is occupied on Sunday: in Upper Austria, the ÖBB has to change 580 clocks, against about 4000 at the national level. Servers and computers are automatically synchronized.

It could be the last time

The switch to the winter time could be held for the last time this year, as the European Commission wants to abolish the pbadage to the hour. The competent Council of Ministers should give its opinion on this subject early next week in Graz.

The official Austria prefers permanent summer time as standard time. Otherwise, no EU state has yet been determined. Desirable for the national economy, a uniform time zone appears, at least in Central Europe. Otherwise, time differences between states would affect trade more.

Experiencing the Russians

During the summer and winter, countries around the world are thinking. the Russians are in this very experimental context: in the spring of 2011, they moved to summer in all seasons. Because getting up in winter is very difficult for them, since October 2014, only winter has been used again.

the Turkey On the other hand, he opted for a permanent summer time. Thus, the time difference in Austria varies according to the season. In summer, the Turks have an hour ahead of us, in winter even two.

in China If you like simplicity, there is no need to change the clock once in the Republic, even if China covers five time zones. But the Chinese can live well with the same time. The weather is perfectly adapted during the day in Beijing. In the sparsely populated West, locals look forward to extremely long days.

While all the clocks turn in China, Down Under is a bit more complicated. Regional governments can decide for themselves whether they want time to change or not. Therefore, there is summer Australia five instead of three time zones.

Venezuela, a small coastal state in South America, has its own time zone for almost a decade. The then President, Hugo Chavez, delayed the time of half an hour. Supposedly meet the bio-rhythm of the inhabitants. Critics have accused Chavez of wanting to stand out only from the US's arch-nemesis. His successor handed the clock back to its original state during the 2016 energy crisis, in hopes of saving electricity.

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