Posted on 08/31/2018 7:31:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
According to Juncker, more than 80% of EU citizens want to abolish daylight saving time and instead remain on the time used during summer instead.
At the moment, each EU member state puts clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and back again on the last Sunday in October.
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One of the chief critics of daylight saving time has been Finland, which has one of the most northerly capital cities in the EU.
Over 70,000 Finns signed a petition last October to urge the government to move away from daylight saving time. For Finland, the plan is also complicated by the fact it shares borders with non-EU states Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, all of which scrapped daylight saving time in 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Standard time sucks. Give me Daylight Savings!
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