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Continental Europe permenantly on UTC+2 would move EU further from NY... a nice little boost for the City of London.

• gpvos 9y ago
  I really hope they won't do that, but just switch to permanent winter time (UTC+1), which is the closest to solar time. In fact, while we're at it, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and certainly Spain should switch to UTC+0. The eastern border of those countries aligns pretty well with 7.5 degrees east. Then I can finally be fully awake when work starts at 9 o'clock.
  • bouke 9y ago
    Netherlands should be at +00:20 UTC to be at solar time, thus having the sun peak at noon. This offset was in use until WWII and was called Amsterdam Time. But having such an offset would be very unpractical to work with.
    • gpvos 9y ago
      Yeah, I just meant that winter time is closer to solar time than summer time (and then argued that we should get even closer to solar time). I have no problem with using full hour offsets, since they make calculations about times in other zones so much easier. The Netherlands was one of the last countries to switch to a "modern" time zone, in fact it was again a foreign occupier (the first being the French) that forced us to modernize (except that they put us in the Central European time zone instead of the Western European). Until 1937 we even used an offset of +00:19'32.13", using the meridian of the Westertoren in Amsterdam.