The country will live by the time for seven months until the end of October when daylight-saving time is introduced on the last Sunday of the month.
In April of 2011, the Lithuanian parliament passed a resolution, suggesting to cancel the introduction of daylight saving time twice a year. According to the document, „switching to daylight saving time makes the dark hours longer, which, according to police statistics, increases the crime rate and the number of traffic accidents,“ however, no calculations or researches have been performed to prove economic benefits of putting clocks one hour back or forward.
The government disregarded the recommendation in the light of enforcement of the European Union's (EU) direction on seasonal time, which stipulates that clocks should be set forward and back until at least 2016.
In January, the office of the prime minister announced a tender to find out the effects of setting clocks forward and back upon human health and the economic sector.
The majority of European Union (EU) member-states first introduced the daylight-saving time in 1980s. The EU's first direction on daylight-saving time agreements was passed in 1980, setting the universal date of the start of daylight-saving time. The end date was set in a directive enforced back in 1996.
