France, March 28 -- The saying goes that time is money but in the European Union, time is political too.

When clocks spring forward across the bloc on Sunday, it will not be the last time despite a desire by millions of EU citizens to see the lights turned out on the biannual change.

Research shows that moving the clock back and forth in autumn and spring negatively impacts the economy as well as people's health, fuelling growing calls to end the system in Europe- and beyond.

The EU proposed abolishing the custom in 2018 after nearly four million people in the bloc's then 28 member states- before Britain formally exited- gave their support in an open consultation.

The parliament- the only directly elected EU body- backed the reform th...