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.
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They had a preliminary vote at the EU today....easily passing the end of DST. Full text document will follow in probably six to eight weeks, and I’d expect it to pass.
Pretty much the best thing that the EU has done in twenty years, and everyone seems to support ending it.
Maybe someone can bring this up to Trump, and get it ended in the US. Course, maybe there are some Democrats who favor it.
They are trying to scrap it here in Florida as well..................
Fact is under EST by late fall millions of school,kids will be coming and going to school in the dark, so it serves some safety purpose.
Couldn’t they just as easily start school a half hour later?
Hooray. Now we need to do that here.
Then change the start and end times of school...
I came across a study in the mid 90s that estimated the DST changes per year were about 20 billion $. That was about 1996... What is the cost now?
Works for me, but I will miss that “extra” hour on sleep on that Autumnal Sunday.
I have to believe that most Euros would want to scrap it simply because it’s an American idea.
I would miss the extra couple of hours of daylight after getting home from work in June and July.
During the French revolution, the French also went crazy in redefining the calendar and time, in an attempt to metricize them, and to eliminate royal and religious references and reminders.
If it matters, it'd be the dead of Winter where you wouldn't have daylight first thing in the AM.
From what I remember of the 1973 Oil Embargo, Nixon started moving the time change earlier, and the naysayers started tossing out "Chillun' be run over going to school/bus stop in the dark..."
The liberal mind-set is that no one has a brain and can't see in the dark or are unable to recognize danger and get out of the way.
Taken literally, that would imply abolition not of DST but of Standard Time.
I wouldn't be wild about 9 am sunrise in December and January, but other than that I would like living on Atlantic Standard Time (UTC -4) all year round.
Sure - but why not go whole hog, and just set the start of school commute time to be at dawn?That way, it would change by at most a couple of minutes a day - no painful "jet lag” effect of an hour “lost" in the spring and an hour “gained” after Halloween.
$30 for every man, woman and child each time you change the time? You’re supposed to move the hour hand one notch, not throw out the clock and buy a new one.
I hope the states follow.
DST was bad enough. Then, when they changed it to Nov-Mar, it was even worse to have to readjust for a 4-month season and an 8-month season.
Set it and leave it alone.
If only The US would do the same
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