The idea was that all countries could choose a timezone (which may be different to the current one), e.g. Spain could choose UTC, UTC+1 or UTC+2 (or indeed spli

The idea was that all countries could choose a timezone (which may be different to the current one), e.g. Spain could choose UTC, UTC+1 or UTC+2 (or indeed split into UTC-1, UTC and UTC+1 depending where), but it wouldn't be able to change in Oct + March However the proposal seems to have stalled Brexit hasn't helped, as the UK would certainly not do what the rest of Europe did, and that would lead to a time difference in Ireland, which would be bad.