Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings (theguardian.com)

AmiMoJo shares a report from The Guardian: Lithuania has said that it would push the European Union to abolish its law on daylight saving time, claiming that most people find it annoying to have to adjust their clocks twice a year. An opinion poll published this year showed that 79% of people in the nation of 2.8 million were against the annual ritual of adjusting clocks forward by one hour in the spring and then back an hour in the autumn. Proponents of daylight saving time, adopted at the beginning of the 20th century, say the longer evening daylight hours in the summer help save energy and bolster productivity. The European Commission said it was "currently examining the summertime question based on all available evidence."

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Re:Reaction from most slashdot readers

[MightyYar]

Slashdot readers are pretty educated, if only because we know that's where Lithium batteries come from.

Re:Eliminate Daylight Wasting Time

[Actually, I do RTFA]

If you work until 5pm, and it gets dark at 5:10pm, you've swepnt all your daylight inside. If it gets dark at 6:10pm, at least you have a bit of daylight.

Clearly what we need is a compromise

[lazlo]

Here's my proposed compromise: Keep the "fall back", but get rid of the "spring forward". Sure, it might take some getting used to, but I'm sure we'd manage it sometime over the next 24 years or so.

Re:Eliminate Daylight Wasting Time

[Actually, I do RTFA]

Ah, so the old "it doesn't matter if the official time moves around, everyone will just have different office hours during daylight savings time, all move in unison (as companies have to work together) change signs/automated messages/websites and have Google recrawl the web" answer that ignores that the way we coordinate changes like that is... by having customary start/end times for businesses and shifting the clocks until we like where we end up.

Re:Eliminate Daylight Wasting Time

[Anonymous Coward]

79% of europeans don't like adjusting their clocks twice a year. That's not the same as 79% of europeans want to stay on standard time year round. The article doesn't say if people prefer DST year round or Standard Time year round.

Re:Eliminate Daylight Wasting Time

[Imrik]

How about we get rid of the notion that people work 9-5 while we're at it. This would help reduce congestion on the roads and make it more likely that people will be able to take care of errands before or after work instead of having to use their lunch break.

Re:Eliminate Daylight Wasting Time

[fahrbot-bot]

OR we could have everyone keep time on their phones and have the phones automatically change the time by a few seconds every day!

This is probably my greatest idea ever.

Please don't tell us any of your other ideas.