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 threadExtra LimeOct 21
@starraven @eunews Exactly! It's been proven the incidence of cancer is higher in people living in the West side of time zones. Which means the sun rising later than "normal".
Show threadStarraven

@sun_addict @eunews

Plus, year-round DST has been done once before in the US. It was a disaster, as the sun didn't rise until well after 9 a.m. in some places. The death rate among children going to school spiked dramatically. It was repealed within a year, going back to the regular time change. People are once again ignoring history.

Oct 21 at 12:59amWeb
Show threadExtra LimeOct 21
@starraven @eunews Most people are focussing on the effects in summer but we need to think about winter first!