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> but that’s not something that will happen unilaterally and will be an especially hard sell at extreme latitudes. Not unilaterally per se, but EU parliament d

by Asooka 3y ago

> but that’s not something that will happen unilaterally and will be an especially hard sell at extreme latitudes. Not unilaterally per se, but EU parliament did vote to end it in ... 2021 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IPR32107/parliament-backs-proposal-to-end-switch-between-summer-and-winter-time-in-2021 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IP... . COVID kind of put those plans on the backburner. People at extreme latitudes should not care much, since for them DST does close to nothing. The parent's proposal is actually quite sound. It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone. Countries at different latitudes would be free to switch e.g. school start times at different dates depending on when sunlight shifts too far in one direction, while keeping their clocks synchronised with astronomical time. Heck, Spain basically does that already, since they're on the wrong timezone (geography dictates they should be on British time, but because of events in the '40s, they're on Central European time) - so they do everything one hour "later".

mulmen 3y ago
> [...] EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world. This proposal is literally one-size-fits-all. > It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone. This is exactly how it works now. But there are a lot of institutions and they aren't coordinated.

by Asooka 3y ago

mulmen 3y ago

> [...] EU whose countries are often smaller than states in India ... need so much adjustment. Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world. This proposal is literally one-size-fits-all. > It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone. This is exactly how it works now. But there are a lot of institutions and they aren't coordinated.