The EU closed off their survey on Daylight-Savings Time. What they will say in public right now....roughly 4.6-million people from across the EU made a comment. The survey is going along these lines.....if a huge number of people say 'dump DST', then the EU might go and do something that everyone is in favor and support (something rare these days).
My guess is that it'll take six weeks to break down the data and reach some conclusion on public opinion. My wife (a German) says that virtually everyone in her office made a comment and said dump DST. It's hard to find anyone who is pro-DST. A few are like me.....being neutral.
The history here?
The Germans used it twice in the war period. The first in the 1914 to 1918 period. The second was 1940 to 1950. After the war ended in 1945....it was discussed and hit some priority point to be dissolved in the 1949 period.
Oddly, it came back up in 1973 during the gas crisis period, and came to a political decision in 1978, with the implementation in 1980.
A big deal? On some unofficial German 'problem-list', it probably gets ranked into the top hundred things that Germans want 'dumped'.
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