> And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST.

> And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST. No, they decided to abandon DST everywhere. What each member has to decide is whether they'd stay in Summer Time or Winter Time permanently.