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Originally Posted by FelixKrull
If they force DST as a standard here in Germany I go nuts...
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The majority in Germany voted to end the clock changes. You'd be on CET (i.e. the Winter time), not DST (which was the +1 summer time, not Winter time.). CET is the original proper year round time in Germany, as is used in Winter before the German Imperial Government copied the British scheme in 1917.
Before railways people used local Solar Time. 12 noon = GMT in Greenwich, England. Each 15 °E is one hour earlier for noon and 15 °W is one hour later for noon, compared to Greenwich. But literally towns could have noon minutes apart. Clockwork timepieces were synchronised to a local sundial any time there was enough sunshine. They'd drift by minutes a day. At the start of mechanical clocks in Europe they only had an hour hand as the accuracy was too poor to make a minute hand worth while.
Originally people called GMT the "Railway time" in England. I think for a while after railways Dublin Time might have been 15 minutes behind GMT. Not sure.
Berlin 13°24′18″E
Vienna 16°22′E
So CET Noon = Solar Noon is a north-south line a bit west of Vienna and a bit east of Berlin.