European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
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Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#2> mandated EU-wide summer time has only existed since 2002
and this repeal only repeals the mandatory adherence to daylight savings. Their next problem is consistency and coordination of the removal of DST among member states. And the Germans seem to be dominating the vote as well, so the really hard work in negotiating with others to remove their DST is the real barrier.
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#3Finally!
Let more people see the light!
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#4In before "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!"
Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least.
And yet, despite it being so new, people are actually defending it? Mindboggling.
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#5In before "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!" Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least. And yet, despite it being so new, people are actually defending it? Mindboggling.
Whenever someone advocates for UTC being the wall clock time all over the world, I think of Jason Mendoza from The Good Place:
> Anytime I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem!
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#6In before "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!" Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least. And yet, despite it being so new, people are actually defending it? Mindboggling.
It’s mindboggling depressing to lose an hour of daylight each day for almost half a year because you’re stuck in an office at work.
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#7In before "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!" Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least. And yet, despite it being so new, people are actually defending it? Mindboggling.
It’s mindboggling depressing to lose an hour of daylight each day for almost half a year because you’re stuck in an office at work.
How much daylight you lose depend highly on what latitude you are living.
In California, daylight savings actually makes sense, it's a noticeable boost of daylight for your office commute in the winter.
In northern Europe, it makes absolutely no sense, because the darkness consumes everything anyway. It takes about a week or two for sunrise to be at the same time it was before the clock adjustment each fall. It's pretty useless.
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#8Someday US will get this too! Right after the metric system.
Seriously speaking: I wish US gets rid of the clock change (one way or the other).
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#9In before "Let's all switch to UTC to solve this problem once and for all!" Anyway, it's so weird to me that daylight savings is such a new concept, it didn't exist where I was born when I was born, but it feels like a thing that ought to have existed for a hundred years at least. And yet, despite it being so new, people are actually defending it? Mindboggling.
We changed our educational grading scale a few years back to make it comparable to the international scale. One of the huge problems was that we had a top-grade for people who went “beyond” expectations for the course. Because “beyond” is up for interpretation, some examiners were more likely to give it than others, but in general it was just extremely hard to earn a top mark and no one really knew what was needed to get it.
So we changed it to make it similar to pretty much every other country. Now roughly 10 years later, it looks like we might change it again because people are missing the old “exceptional” grade.
Only it isn’t students, educators or examinators who miss it. It’s the public and politicians. They’ll probably succeed in changing it back, despite no one affected by it wanting it.
It’s universally stupid, but it makes me wonder when we’ll bring saving-day-light time back.
Re: European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s mindboggling depressing to lose an hour of daylight each day for almost half a year because you’re stuck in an office at work.
How much daylight you lose depend highly on what latitude you are living. In California, daylight savings actually makes sense, it's a noticeable boost of daylight for your office commute in the winter. In northern Europe, it makes absolutely no sense, because the darkness consumes everything anyway. It takes about a week or two for sunrise to be at the same time it was before the clock adjustment each fall. It's pre…
If “daylight savings” time is so great, why not keep it all year round? Why change at all?