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European Commission to Recommend Abolition of Daylight Saving Time
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-juncker-pledges/a-45300586
Speaking to German public broadcaster ZDF, Juncker said that he would push for the changing clocks to be abolished and that the Commission "will decide on it today."
[...] Those who are looking forward to future undisturbed sleep will have to wait a while longer. The European Commission, the EU's top executive body, will need to agree on the measure and put forward a draft law on abolishing daylight saving time. The EU Parliament and the bloc's currently 28-member states would also then need to approve the measure.
The Commission is set to release the official results of the online poll, which experienced several technical problems due to the high level of interest when it was first launched online.
Clock Changes: EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390
The EU Commission is proposing to end the practice of adjusting clocks by an hour in spring and autumn after a survey found most Europeans opposed it.
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said millions "believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that's what will happen".
The Commission's proposal requires support from the 28 national governments and MEPs to become law.
In the EU clocks switch between winter and summer under daylight saving time.
A European Parliament resolution says it is "crucial to maintain a unified EU time regime".
However, the Commission has not yet drafted details of the proposed change.
Daylight Saving Time is a bad idea in a modern world with electric lights, it should have been scrapped ages ago.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @07:59PM (18 children)
I can sort of see a point 120+ years ago for people who mainly lived and worked in cities, but today we have these new fanged things called ' electric light ' that are everywhere..
( for people in rural areas, it never made any sense )
Abolish it planet wide.. NOW.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 31 2018, @08:08PM (9 children)
Rural professions don't work by the clock, they work by the sun. So, yeah, it never made any sense for them to be saddled with DST. Unfortunately, if your goal is to save energy, it still makes sense in cities even with electric lighting. Personally, I don't give a fuck about saving energy if it's going to inconvenience me and put me in a shitty mood for a week or more twice a year.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @08:44PM (6 children)
Don’t be a retard, you lose an hour only once a year. The other time you get a bonus hour to recharge.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday August 31 2018, @09:07PM (1 child)
Yeah, you get your hour back after half a year. But where is the interest?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Friday August 31 2018, @09:38PM
And don't forget about the exchange rate!
It costs an hour and (approx) 22 minutes to get your hour, here in Canada at least.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @09:11PM
Not necessarily, sudden shifts to your biological clock are bad. It isn't as bad as losing an hour but that is mostly because people don't properly plan to go to sleep early. Massive Buzzard tends to be more sensitive than the average bear so I can totally believe his claims.
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 31 2018, @09:39PM (2 children)
That "bonus hour" means I'm awake before the coffee has made itself. This is not a win in my book.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @07:21PM
That "bonus hour"
Doc, my health is perfect. That only problem I have is that I regularly crap at precisely 8 o'clock every morning
What's wrong with that? Most people would love to be that regular
Yeah, but I don't wake up until 9!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 02 2018, @01:44PM
learn to set your coffee maker to start an hour earlier?
(Score: 5, Informative) by hemocyanin on Saturday September 01 2018, @12:03AM (1 child)
The energy savings are a myth: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-daylight-saving-times-save-energy/ [scientificamerican.com]
To be fair, that article notes there are some other studies that suggest that, spread over the entire nation and all climatic zones, DST may save about half a percent on electricity. Of course that comes at the cost of death, injury, disfigurement and all the associated economic costs involved in such accidents.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Saturday September 01 2018, @12:04AM
Oops, I forgot to add: FUCK DST
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @08:08PM (1 child)
I thought "fanged things" were Vampires, snakes, etc . . . I had no clue that "electric light" was in that category too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @01:18AM
Touch the wires and see if it bites you.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 31 2018, @08:09PM
That map is useful:
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/dstMaps-691x1024.png [andywoodruff.com]
Part of this article:
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/ [andywoodruff.com]
(Score: 5, Touché) by ikanreed on Friday August 31 2018, @08:28PM (4 children)
Why abolish it planetwide, when we can invent a new way for America to be stuck centuries in the past?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 31 2018, @09:42PM
"Get off my pasture, dere, Cowboy!"
"Get off my coliseum, dere, Roman!"
"Get off my cross, dere, Jesus!"
"Ugh ugh ugh, dere, Ughmug!"
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 31 2018, @09:49PM (1 child)
It looks like the EU are slowly waking up to DST .. while comatose to being invaded (er, I mean: being haven for "refugees") and choking on the internal bureaucracy churning out of Brussels.
USA? Australia? New Zealand? DST will not change unless there is a revolution or a meteor strike. I'm voting for the meteor.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 01 2018, @12:52AM
Don't say [abc.net.au] you weren't warned [abc.net.au]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 01 2018, @06:20AM
I'm in Arizona, also in America and have never had to live DST. I guess Arizonans were smarter than europeans. Same goes for Hawaii.