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.

POLITICO
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 threadexu0

@starraven @eunews where I live, DST is summer time and being on wintertime in summer would mean that dusk starts at 3:37 and the sun rises at 4:18 mid June. That means most people will not have any benefit of it, while their summer evenings are cut one hour short.

Who the would want that?!

Oct 20 at 11:04pmWeb
Show threadStarravenOct 21

@exu0 @eunews

This may come as a shock to you, but human beings have based their activities around sunlight for many thousands of years longer than we have had clocks.

Show threadexu0Oct 21
@starraven @eunews and you expect everyone to change their habits, time schedules (including public transport) etc. according to sunrise? If you do, you have much less of an idea of how human kind works than you think
Show threadStarravenOct 21

@exu0 @eunews

Human kind has a habit of messing with things in ways that don't work and stubbornly trying to claim it's an improvement, such as with the clock. I have a perfectly fine idea idea of how it works, I'd say.