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If you go back to 2005 you can find an actual CmdrTaco story but again it's about an actual legal change and it's one of the few from a real reader. More than 10 years back and there's lots of Solskill and timothy posts. When there's a poster involved it seems to be an 'anonymous reader' or a 'New submitter'. The exceptions seem to be other editors like BeauHD posting where there was an actual change rather than just whining. I'm too lazy to do it myself but hey - I came up with the idea, someone else can do the legwork.Īlmost all posted by msmash and Editor Dave. It would be interesting to go back over the past 20+ years of Slashdot and log who has submitted these biannual 'let's whine about daylight saving time' stories to the site - I'm wondering if we'd see the same two or three people, over and over. Only about 70 countries in the world still observe daylight saving time, but many are reconsidering it. Yet neighboring Ireland, a European Union member state, will be impacted by a change to the current system, potentially complicating border crossings. But even that would be tricky.įor instance, since the U.K.'s withdrawal from the European Union in 2020, the island nation is no longer concerned with the European Parliament's decision on daylight saving time. As part of the fifth edition of the Natolin Neighbourhood Days, the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair organized on 13 March 2018 a Round-table Debate entitled: Living in Limbo: Whither human rights and civil liberties in the South Caucasus.

So the European Commission, tasked with executing the decision from Parliament, has asked countries to align with their neighbors. Forcing all member states to implement the same time would be complicated, as some would get less daylight than others. 'We have a real problem.' While Germany is calling for summer time, Greece and Portugal want to keep switching between the two.

DEBATE DRAGS LIMBO IN EUROPE FATE TV

'We agree on the time change, but we are stuck on whether to stay on summer or winter time,' Karima Delli, a French member of the European Parliament, told French broadcaster BFM TV in 2019. Member states of the European Union are also struggling to agree on which time to adopt. The fate of daylight saving time in Europe remains unclear. 'People do not want to keep changing their watches.'Īlthough the decision was supposed to take effect in 2021, the coronavirus pandemic has delayed its implementation, pushing it to the bottom of the political agenda for many countries. 'The time change will be abolished,' the European Commission's then-president, Jean-Claude Juncker, told German public broadcaster ZDF in 2018. Critics of the ritual have pointed to scientific studies showing the negative physical and psychological effects of switching back and forth to mark daylight saving time. N 2018, the European Parliament voted to end the practice after a poll of 4.8 million Europeans showed overwhelming support for scrapping it. Why didn't the European Union drop its annual observation of Daylight Saving Time? ABC News reports:

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