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Summer time is decided as the EU level: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32000L0084 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=C

• duskwuff 10y ago
  Irony: that'd make GMT no longer the time in Greenwich.
  • DanWaterworth 10y ago
    That's already the case during BST.
• masklinn 10y ago
  > Summer time is decided as the EU level: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320.. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320.... This document only seems to specify when the switch happens for obvious coordination reasons, in the same way DST dates are decided at the federal level in the US, but states are not required to use DST (IIRC AZ does not)
  • programLyrique 10y ago
    I've found another document from the European Commission that seems to say that the 2001 directive actually also requires that all EU member states use summer time, not only when if they use it. http://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/studies/doc/2014-09-19-the-application-of-summertime-in-europe.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/studies/doc/201... "European policy measures began to be introduced, leading to the present day situation, where Directive 2000/84/EC requires Member States to put their clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and change them back on the last Sunday of October each year." And 11.2 (page 10): "The cumulative effect of this succession of laws is that all Member States are now obliged to observe summertime, starting it on the last Sunday of March and ending it on the last Sunday of October."