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EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu)
"Following a number of requests from citizens, from the European Parliament, and from certain EU Member States, the Commission has decided to investigate the functioning of the current EU summertime arrangements and to assess whether or not they should be changed."
The EU has launched an official "online consultation" seeking input from the public. Long-time Slashdot reader mitch0 writes: The consultation was started after some member states expressed the opinion that the daylight saving time should be abolished within the EU. There were some local motions in member countries as well, but these cannot really proceed without full coordination with all member states.
So far it seems that most of those wanting to end the daylight-saving change would stick to summer time all-year round, but the questionnaire has a specific question about this issue so a more representative result is expected after the survey is closed in the middle of August...
Citizens can express their opinion about the summer time change by filling out a short online survey.
The EU has launched an official "online consultation" seeking input from the public. Long-time Slashdot reader mitch0 writes: The consultation was started after some member states expressed the opinion that the daylight saving time should be abolished within the EU. There were some local motions in member countries as well, but these cannot really proceed without full coordination with all member states.
So far it seems that most of those wanting to end the daylight-saving change would stick to summer time all-year round, but the questionnaire has a specific question about this issue so a more representative result is expected after the survey is closed in the middle of August...
Citizens can express their opinion about the summer time change by filling out a short online survey.
The submission may have been a bit misleading, but it is not DST that is proposed to get abolished, but the DST change. So, each country is free to chose the timezone they'd like to remain in after the DST change is ended. There is a specific question for this in the poll as well (keep summer time, keep winter time or "don't care").
I sure as hell hope the DST change will be ended, and we'll stick to summer time.
// "If human beings don't keep exercising their lips,
// their brains start working." -- Ford Prefect
How much light you have on a day depends on how close to a pole you live, and if it is summer or winter.
Judging from your username I suppose you are in Southern USA. Well, southern Europe is about as far north as northern USA.
For me in Stockholm in Northern Europe, the sun sets today at 10 pm and rises at 03:47 am CET. One hour forwards or backwards would not matter because it is TOO BRIGHT anyway.
BTW, in the middle of winter, if the day is cloudy it may only get as bright as the summer nights are darkest. But then we don't have DST.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
They should eliminate it simply based on the increase in heart attacks it causes.
Triggers, not causes. A heart healthy person will get a heart attack from neither adjusting sleeping/waking preferences nor irritation it may cause.
There is a rational reason. It is to make people wake up with the sun, more or less.
Here: http://gpinzone.blogspot.com/2...
There is no rational reason why we have to fool around with our clocks twice a year.
No rational reason? Mid-northern latitudes (~40-50 degrees) have about 16 hours sunlight in summer, and only 8 in winter. In summer, 1 hour is added to the clock, so that the sunrise is not at 5am (6 instead), and people benefit from late sunlight since this is a holiday season. In winter with no hour added sunrises happens at an earlier time, otherwise people would go to work in total darkness.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
When I click that link, the very first thing I see on the page is this:
In 2008, Energy Department experts studied the impact of the extended Daylight Saving Time on energy consumption in the U.S. and found that the extra four weeks of Daylight Saving Time saved about 0.5 percent in total electricity per day.
When I click on that link I go to this government page: https://www.energy.gov/article...
On that page it says:
While this might not sound like a lot, it adds up to electricity savings of 1.3 billion kilowatt-hours -- or the amount of electricity used by more than 100,000 households for an entire year.
So... I'm not sure who's the liar here. Maybe you're just lying to yourself.
No sig today...
A lot of the western European countries (e.g. Spain, France) should abandon Central European Time (CET) of any type.
It doesn't make any sense since since they're in western and not central Europe.
That's one reason people eat so late in Spain, as they're to the west of England.
Instead they should use WET (Western European Time), i.e. essentially follow the UK....
Roughly half of Europe lives north of the 50 degree line.