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That line putting the whole Benelux, France, and Spain on one side of the divide (Western European Time) and Germany, Switzerland, and Italy on the other (Centr
by Freak_NL 3y ago
That line putting the whole Benelux, France, and Spain on one side of the divide (Western European Time) and Germany, Switzerland, and Italy on the other (Central European Time) makes this proposal just about dead in the water.
- amai 3y agoCentral European Time in Benelux, France and Spain is basically Hitler time, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478402 If people would become aware of that the proposal might have more chances.
- Freak_NL 3y agoIt's not a secret or anything. People won't care that the German occupation had anything to do with it, because before that Amsterdam Time ran 19 minutes and 32.13 seconds ahead of Greenwich! No one wants to go back to a timezone like that in the twenty first century. Hitler actually did us a favour on that front.