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Originally Posted by issybird
And with the permanent shift to DST in Europe, you’ll never have to change it again once you muscle through until next March.  |
Was supposed to happen years ago, but UK Government blocked it. Even after Brexit there is STILL a UK Veto because we can't be having two time zones across the British-Irish border in Ireland.
Irish Standard Time is GMT+1 = Central Europe (Standard Winter) time (CET). So If the clock dance was abolished then only Ireland, UK and Portugal would be on DST (=Summer time). So in Winter, technically Ireland is on IST -1. Spain is due south of UK & Ireland, but I think Franco switched them from GMT to CET. I think the UK is vetoing it because they "invented" the twice yearly change, or they don't want to be "European".
It was 1st invoked in WWI UK to supposedly help the war effort. Germany adopted it soon after and it spread then to the rest of the world. Not used in far north or south, because the day/night changes too much and not used in a band a bit larger than the Tropics (depending on country) as it pointless.
The twice a year change causes accidents and human stress. There is little evidence that this only 105 year old practice actually has any advantage. EU countries each did a poll which came out in favour of scrapping it. Not another Brussels plot as claimed in Westminster. I think most UK is also in favour of scrapping it, but reliable figures are scarce. It's irrelevant to farmers as they can milk when ever suits them.
We could have no time zones at it would work. People would just get up and go to bed at different times, as they do now.