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There is a push to reach consensus before getting rid of DST and I don't think they will get rid of DST before 2023. So nothing is decided, yet, and anything ca
by foepys 6y ago
There is a push to reach consensus before getting rid of DST and I don't think they will get rid of DST before 2023. So nothing is decided, yet, and anything can still happen, even keeping DST in the EU.
It would be correct for France to have a different time zone than Germany, by the way. Western Spain and Eastern Poland are currently CEST despite being nearly 3 hours apart geographically.
- azernik 6y agoInterestingly, that westward reach of CET is an artifact of WWII. France and the Benelux countries changed time zone in 1940 under German occupation, and Spain changed time zone as a symbol of fascist solidarity.
- Ichthypresbyter 6y agoBefore WW2, the Netherlands was on Amsterdam Time. This was originally 19 minutes and 32 seconds ahead of Greenwich, though they decided to round it to 20 minutes in 1937. The Netherlands was relatively late to adopt standard time at all. While the telegraph offices and railways switched to Amsterdam time in the mid 19th century, towns maintained their own local time zones until 1909, which often caused problems for travellers. I suspect that one reason for this is that Dutch church towers (and their clocks) are all the property of the local government, as a holdover from the Napoleonic occupation- so the people in charge of the clocks might have been reluctant to switch to Amsterdam time...
- cozzyd 6y agoYeah I remember in high school spanish class learning that the Spanish eat very late but it turns out just to be an artifact of being in the "wrong" time zone.