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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe
European Union Directive 2000/84/EC makes the observance of summer time mandatory for EU member states (except overseas territories), though a proposal to repeal this directive and require that member states observe their own choice[note 1] year-round is currently going through the legislative process as of July 2020, but has not seen progress since October 2020.[1]
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Changing it can be remarkably expensive. My house central heating unit (a fairly widely installed one) has hardwired time change rules which cannot be changed without replacing the unit: I guess they assumed that since EU rules hadn't changed for decades and the UK was hardly going to leave they could hardwire the lot. Whoops!
Replacing the unit needs both a plumber and an electrician and obviously since this unit is a whole twelve years old they don't make it any more and replacing it is an expensive sod. There are probably hundreds of thousands of houses in the UK alone in the exact same position.
I hate GMT and think the UK should be on BST year-round -- but that doesn't mean that doing it is easy or cheap
