European News 🇪🇺Oct 20

Spain restarts push to kill daylight saving time in EU

Brussels proposed ending seasonal time changes in 2018, but seven years later everyone’s still winding their clocks back and forth.

https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-sanchez-restarts-push-eu-finally-end-daylight-saving-time/

Spain restarts push to kill daylight saving time in EU

Brussels proposed ending seasonal time changes in 2018, but seven years later everyone’s still winding their clocks back and forth.

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Show threadStarravenOct 20

@eunews

There's talk of doing it in Canada, but the wrong way. They want to stay on Daylight Saving Time, contrary to how human beings have lived for a quarter million years.

Show threadHenrik Pauli

@starraven @eunews Society's expectations are *weird*. Although it shouldn't matter what numbers are on the clock when, as long as it's consistent, it sure seems like humans sometimes like some numbers better than others.

Instead of just starting the day earlier, Singapore is in a constant DST with the sun coming up and going down at 7 o'clock instead of 6. Iceland uses GMT so that what little sunlight people get in the winter, they have better chances at getting it.

Oct 20 at 9:34pmWeb