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I 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 th

• layer8 2y ago
  The 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 ago
    I 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. :)