That made me chuckle.
Good occasion for that unelected jerk to play the benign democratic leader.
Apart from that I welcome the decision of keeping daylight saving-time permanently.
Yeah, they give a crumb while carrying away the loaf.
That made me chuckle.
Good occasion for that unelected jerk to play the benign democratic leader.
Apart from that I welcome the decision of keeping daylight saving-time permanently.
In Germany the current tendency is that it will keep the summer time.
I totally forgat about it. Thanks all of you for voting. That March day when we get one hour of sleeping less is the worst day in a year for me. I seriously need months to adjust.
It might feel good that way but think about the fact that the 'normal' time, winter time, is based on reality (if I am not mistaken). The noon is at midday. 12 o'clock. Midnight is the middle of the night. With the summer time we will be off an hour. No more Sun's zenith at noon but 1pm. What a little evil trick, no? When should the church bells ring? ;) I would personally prefer to stick with winter time even though I enjoy long light evenings during Summer.Staying forever in summer time is something that I look forward to. Hopefully, the non-EU countries will follow this resolution.
It might feel good that way but think about the fact that the 'normal' time, winter time, is based on reality (if I am not mistaken). The noon is at midday. 12 o'clock. Midnight is the middle of the night. With the summer time we will be off an hour. No more Sun's zenith at noon but 1pm. What a little evil trick, no? When should the church bells ring? ;) I would personally prefer to stick with winter time even though I enjoy long light evenings during Summer.
You can check the time of Solar noon at this website. There you can see that: 1. Solar noon changes over the year; 2. Solar noon is different for different longitude. So, Solar noon for my city is actually about 24 minutes before yours.
So, you are probably right that western Europe should have permanent winter time. But for us in the east, summer time sounds better. So I would propose, having a two, maybe even three time zones for Europe as a best solution, just like in the US.
We already have 3 time zones in Europe. Eastern European Time (e.g. Greece, Finland; UT+2), Western European Time (e.g. Portugal, UK, Ireland; UT) and Middle European Time (most of EC, UT+1). Most countries of the European Community have UT+1.
So for your country would be better off with summer time and my country Germany and Western European countries would be better off with winter time. Each country's people may have to decide what is best for them and not best for big money.
What is the issue? Those states who do not want to change anymore just do not change it. Others could continue until they decide otherwise. And for traffic - they did manage different daylight saving time changes e.g for flights between US and Europe. For international travel with trains, they may just have to change times in time tables. Most trains are national travelers anyway.
Daylight saving introduction and cancellation was done more than once in the last 120 years.