Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Update on Daylight Savings Time

A couple of months ago, I essayed a piece detailing the EU idea of dumping Daylight Savings Time.  The poll was complete.....roughly 4.5-million responded from across Europe.  Well....Focus (the news magazine) came up today to update the story.

What they suggest....some states (countries) have not been that happy over the idea.  The EU promises to do more research but the earliest that it might be dumped now?  March of 2021.

Why the delay?  The comment is basically....there are countries which require more time to 'coordinate' this change.  It basically means that some political folks can't figure out the plus or minus to this.....nor the method in which they would just exist without the time-change.

I know....it's pretty stupid.

You can go out into the German public and find that probably four out of every five Germans....are opposed to having Daylight Savings Time.  Why couldn't they get it passed via the German legislature?  They didn't want to handle it.

The odds that the EU will fail, and it'll never pass?  I would suggest it's now a 50-50 chance that it'll stay the same. 

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