The European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee has backed plans to end the process of clocks going forward and backwards twice a year by 2021.
It's after a consultation of 4 million people throughout Europe, including Ireland.
Over 88% of Irish people involved in the consultation want to get rid of the clocks changing twice a year, while 80% of those would prefer it to remain on summertime all year round - meaning darker mornings and brighter evenings.
The European Parliament will now consider the recommendation.
Arrangements in the EU require that the clocks are changed twice per year in order to cater for the changing patterns of daylight, and to take advantage of the available daylight in a given period.
If The European Parliament gives it the go ahead, member states will have to choose to stay on winter time or summer time.
This means that technically, Belfast could have a different time zone to Dublin post Brexit, but Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly says that's highly unlikely. 'It could technically happen if you got a very strong anti-European pro-Brexiteer Prime Minister'.
