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The point is we don't need to change universal time. Thousands of years from now, when solar time drifts away from UTC enough for a particular country to care,
by School-Cotton 2y ago
The point is we don't need to change universal time. Thousands of years from now, when solar time drifts away from UTC enough for a particular country to care, that country can change its time zone. There doesn't need to be any global coordination and the process will be gradual enough that nobody will notice.
- layer8 2y agoThe EU already fails to agree on dropping DST (and adjusting time zones in the process), because member states will be affected differently, and neighboring countries that should really be in different time zones benefit from being in the same zone. I doubt they could agree on shifting their time zones, because invariably some countries would get the short stick.
- School-Cotton 2y agoI keep repeating this point but for some reason people keep ignoring it. Countries do not have to agree to change time zone. They can each change it whenever they want.
- layer8 2y agoThe point is they will not want to change their time zone to a different one from their neighbors if they are in the same zone, because that has economic downsides. And the neighboring country will not want to change along because winter mornings will be too dark or whatever. It’s exactly the issue that currently prevents dropping DST in the EU, although a majority would prefer not changing clocks twice a year.
- Analemma_ 2y agoI think that getting all of Europe to change time zone offsets by 30 minutes once every 400 years is within our power.
- throw0101c 2y ago> I think that getting all of Europe to change time zone offsets by 30 minutes once every 400 years is within our power. It took about 400 years for all countries to finally go from Julian to Gregorian. :)