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In 2018, the European Parliament voted to get rid of twice a year clock changes. It came after a poll of 4.6 million EU citizens showed strong support for scrap

In 2018, the European Parliament voted to get rid of twice a year clock changes. It came after a poll of 4.6 million EU citizens showed strong support for scrapping it. I'm not sure however what's the process of getting this actually implemented.

dalys 4y ago
I believe it is up to the current (always rotating) President of the Council of the European Union to raise / implement / pass it on to some other instance. https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/institutions-and-bodies-profiles/council-european-union_en https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/ins... Correct me if Im wrong. Its really hard to understand how EU works, even for us on the inside.
- tgv 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#Legislative_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#...
badcppdev 4y ago
For context that's a bit over 1% of the total 447 million people who live in the EU
- tgv 4y ago
  And it wasn't widely known. I think it was mainly Germans. I would have voted against it.
  - ithkuil 4y ago
    Me too. I still find it hard to talk to friends and family members who just don't seem to get it that the sun will rise one hour later, i.e. that kids will have to go to school before sunrise in december/january where I live . The discussion around DST always happens during summer when people feel sad about it ending and the looming prospect of shortening days, most noticeable when the clocks get back to non-DST time.
iggldiggl 4y ago
> It came after a poll of 4.6 million EU citizens showed strong support for scrapping it. A poll where something like 2/3rds of the responses came from Germany (where somehow that topic had become a particularly hot issue), even though it only accounted for approximately 1/6th of the EU population pre-Brexit.

dalys 4y ago

I believe it is up to the current (always rotating) President of the Council of the European Union to raise / implement / pass it on to some other instance. https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/institutions-and-bodies/institutions-and-bodies-profiles/council-european-union_en https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/ins... Correct me if Im wrong. Its really hard to understand how EU works, even for us on the inside.

tgv 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#Legislative_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#...

badcppdev 4y ago

For context that's a bit over 1% of the total 447 million people who live in the EU

tgv 4y ago
And it wasn't widely known. I think it was mainly Germans. I would have voted against it.
- ithkuil 4y ago
  Me too. I still find it hard to talk to friends and family members who just don't seem to get it that the sun will rise one hour later, i.e. that kids will have to go to school before sunrise in december/january where I live . The discussion around DST always happens during summer when people feel sad about it ending and the looming prospect of shortening days, most noticeable when the clocks get back to non-DST time.

iggldiggl 4y ago

> It came after a poll of 4.6 million EU citizens showed strong support for scrapping it. A poll where something like 2/3rds of the responses came from Germany (where somehow that topic had become a particularly hot issue), even though it only accounted for approximately 1/6th of the EU population pre-Brexit.