Daylight savings should pass quietly into the night, say more than 3.8 million Europeans in a recent survey.

Of the 4.6 million respondents, 84 per cent said they want an end to daylight savings. 

Professor Thomas Kantermann, an expert on chronobiology at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Germany agrees.

"We are like other animals," he told RN Breakfast.

"And we have this biology ticking in us that tries to synchronise us with the environment, and adding this artificial clock change, this pretending we are moving into a different time zone — it just irritates."

"If you have morning light, you synchronise with the day, and it helps you to fall asleep at an adequate time in the evening," he explained.

"If you have no daylight in the morning and only daylight or brighter light in the latter part of the day or the evenings, it makes you sleep later; it shifts your clock into the night."

The survey has pushed a proposal across the desk of the European Commission, which has now put forward a motion to end seasonal clock changes in Europe in 2019.

The proposal would effectively give Member States the option of having permanent summertime or wintertime. 

“The last mandatory change to summertime would take place on Sunday 31 March 2019,” said a statement from the Commission.

“After this, the Member States wishing to permanently switch back to wintertime would still be able to make one last seasonal clock change on Sunday 27 October 2019. Following that date, seasonal clock changes would no longer be possible.”

"We are proposing to put an end to seasonal clock changes as of next year. This very ambitious timetable will allow citizens to reap the benefits without delay. We are now inviting Member States and businesses to make the necessary preparations to ensure a coordinated approach across the EU," said Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc.

The Commission's proposal is currently in front of the European Parliament and the Council, and should it be accepted, each Member State would advise by April 2019 whether it intends to remove seasonal time changes. 

Do you think dayligth savings should be banished? Do you like daylight savings? Would would the benefiots be for removing seasonal clock changes?