EU To Stop Changing the Clocks in October 2019 (dw.com)

European Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc last week announced that the EU will stop the twice-yearly changing of clocks across the continent in October 2019. From a report: The practice, which was used as a means to conserve energy during the World Wars as well as the oil crises of the 1970s, became law across the bloc in 1996. All EU countries are required to move forward by an hour on the last Sunday of March and back by an hour on the final Sunday in October. Bulc said EU member states would have until April 2019 to decide whether they would permanently remain on summer or winter time. [...] "In order to maintain a harmonised approach we are encouraging consultations at national levels to ensure a coordinated approach of all member states," Bulc said. The decision to tackle the issue was prompted after the Commission launched an online survey. Some 4.6 million Europeans answered the survey -- three million of those respondents were from Germany -- with 80 percent of them voting to scrap the practice .

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Re:Damn - one year too late

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when did the Daily Mail ever do 'reasoning' ?
All they care about is twisting things to make nice click-baity headlines to sell more papers to people who need to be told what they should be offended by today.
TBH, I'm suprised they didn't make it out to be some Islamic plot to drive down house prices and cause cancer.

Re:" stop the twice-yearly changing of clocks"

[santiago]

"Daylight saving" is also primarily an Americanism, with most of Europe referring to the local equivalent as "summer time".

Re:Damn - one year too late

[Anonymous Coward]

France is on UTC+1 or UTC+2 depending on the time of the year. It will be on either UTC+1 or UTC+2 after the change.
My bet is that France will stick to whatever Germany is on, because.

Re:Damn - one year too late

[AmiMoJo]

They have to have the other stuff to justify the photos of girls and women. A lot of it is "health" stories that are basically body shaming and anxiety inducing crap where they write about the 5 year old children of celebrities wearing designer clothes and eating sweets like any normal 5 year old would.