Eu To Stop Messing With The Clocks Twice A Year.

[Gromit]

Hope we follow, when we leave.

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680

[ToraToraTora]

Personally I think it's a good idea (but they/we should all go to summer time) but last time this came up there were objections on behalf of the Northern countries, with some validity. I suspect the same will happen here. The Northern areas are much more sensitive to clock adjustments.

[Old_Geezer]

Been a thread on it.
I hope we don't. I'd prefer we got up at the same level of light throughout the year and tolerated the time the evening came in tge colder months.

[Old_Geezer]

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[SparklyKid]

The sun comes up the sun goes down, does not make a damn bit of difference where two fingers on a clock/watch are pointing.

[Cloverjo]

I think we should stick to one time all year round. I don't mind whether it's BST or GMT.
GMT would make it easier for the rest of Europe and the world.

[ToraToraTora]

that is true sparkly but our day to day lives are governed by what the clock actually says. Thus our lives, timetables, anything that relies on timing relies on us all having the same time for reference. Otherwise chaos ensues, people are late/early etc. Remember when you last forgot to put the clock back/forward? bet you were late/early for something. Imagine that multiplied by the population every day.

[Old_Geezer]

It does make a difference, if you do your own thing you get out of sync with the rest of society. And who wouldn't want it to be lighter when you're trying to wake up fully in the morning ?

[Old_Geezer]

How does T³ keep jumping in ahead of me ?

[KARL]

For an earlier clock time for daylight each day and earlier darkness the clock should be "slower" (behind) which what GMT does for the UK. GMT is the natural time zone for the UK with solar noon at 12 midday. When the sun rises at, say, 0800 on GMT it is already 0900 on clocks set to summer time.

[youngmafbog]

I hope we follow too Gromit. All the old reasons, as far as the UK is concerned, are no longer valid.

[Huderon]

As I understand things, it won't be compulsory, individual states will be allowed to adjust the clocks or not as they wish.

I have never really understood the fuss about it. Portugal, which is in the same time zone as us and is more solidly attached to the rest of the continent, doesn't seem to have an issue with the time difference. In the USA they have three time zones with, if memory serves, states deciding for themselves whether or not to use daylight saving time, again without too much fuss.

But in this country, for some people the issue seems to be almost a casus belli

[Zacs-Master]

The US was divided into 4 standard time zones on November 18, 1883, and jurisdiction for the zones was given to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Since 1967, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has been responsible for governing time zones in the country.

Time zones in the USA are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX - Standard Time. The time zones in the law are defined by their offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

[SlackAlice]

I'd prefer to stay with a single time zone all year. personally I'd like GMT+1