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While I think moving away from daylight saving time (DST) is generally a good thing, but why EU not individual nations? Do nations under EU have no authority to
by geoalchimista 8y ago
While I think moving away from daylight saving time (DST) is generally a good thing, but why EU not individual nations? Do nations under EU have no authority to determine whether they observe DST or not? In the US, the federal government does not dictate whether a state observes DST or not.
- roel_v 8y agoRight,because when I go shopping in another country 1p minutes from here, I want to have to worry about what time zone they're in... Like in Queensland/NSW, that's just silly there.
- IshKebab 8y agoYou can't really have timezones without... being able to cross timezones. What's your point?
- roel_v 8y agoThat countries within the EU should be within the same timezone when they're on the same longitude, duh. Imagine West- and Southern Europe all having different choices on whether they observe DST and when it starts... Sure there are many places on Earth where it happens, but it's a major inconvenience. Hence, we need supranational coordination.
- majewsky 8y agoMost of the EU's rules and laws have been lobbied for by the industry because the industry loves standardization.
- kemitche 8y agoThe US allows states to skip DST but places fairly strict restrictions on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoIndividual nations don’t have the weight to do it alone, if Austria decided to go it alone it would be chaos for then. They have authority to do whatever they want, it just doesn’t make sense to do it alone.
- Fiahil 8y agoA nation could choose to keep DST, but it would be frowned upon as it would hinder the cohesion with other countries. They have no incentives to do so, nobody likes DST on the whole continent.
- akvadrako 8y agoKeeping summer time permanently was the popular option in the survey. What makes you think winter time will be the default?
- petre 8y agoMorocco changes the clocks four times a year. During Ramadan they switch to winter time, so the night falls earlier and they can have a snack (iftar).
- hansjorg 8y agoThe linked article seems to indicate otherwise, but the member states are free to do what they want on this issue.
- 3chelon 8y agoBecause that is the nature of the EU. Although I didn't personally vote for Brexit, it is that kind of thing that made so many people so antagonistic towards it. That and the amount of money shovelled into fuelling this bureaucracy.
- Robin_Message 8y agoAccording to the European Commission, 6% of expenditure is on administration, compared with 94% on policies. To pay for this, the EU had an agreed budget of €143 billion for the year 2014, representing around 1% of the EU-28's gross national income (GNI). From Budget of the European Union - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union
- blibble 8y agothat number is disproportionately low as most of the cost of enforcing areas that the EU now controls is attributed to national budgets: this makes the EU look a lot more efficient that it is in reality e.g. the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is essentially an arm of the EU, but its costs are entirely borne by the UK government's budget once you realise that 6% is only mostly the very top level of administration in Brussels, and little of the costs to implement policies at the national level: it starts to look a lot more expensive