A couple of weeks ago, I essayed about the EU stance on ending Daylight-Savings-Time. They've come to pretty much agree....it will end. But they are stuck on which 'time' they will stick with.
ARD (public TV, Channel One in Germany) discussed part of the issue this morning.
Some folks (probably less than a quarter of the European population) want the time permanently set to the summer value. The rest want the normal winter value to be in place. I know.....it's an odd prospective.
Why the difference in attitude? If you select the winter time idea....you end up paying a bit more in electrical cost for light usage. So the pro-summertime folks do have a point on savings.
The EU? They say it has to be one set change across the entire landscape.....they don't want a patchwork mess to exist.
I suspect that one time will be selected, and it'll be winter time. Then I suspect the two or three countries with the light usage issue will flip their countries to a different time-zone (as the Greeks are on now)....to resolve this issue.
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