by goodmodule 12 hours ago
It would be great to see Europe adopt it as well. Changing clocks twice a year feels outdated and more disruptive than beneficial.
I don't like switching to daylight saving and back but I'd rather have that that permanently moving to +1. Then you have extreme examples which are already shifted like Spain (for historical reasons around aligning with Germany) and I don't find that alignment useful economically, in city life practice and more.
If had to make an executive choice with no further analysis at this moment I'd put them all in their respective original times and move Spain and any outlier to their proper timezone (a vertical map alignment of sorts)
It was proposed officially in 2018, but unfortunately the decision was never finalized:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/seasonal-time-ch...
Absolutely not. The time that would stay is the bad one.
With switch, we get reasonable half a years. Without it, it would be whole unreasonable year.
The biggest unreasonability is switching at all. I admit other points of view, but switching back and forth is a compromise that seems far worse than just sticking with one. Either one.
We seem to be in the worst situation now where not only does the EU change their time twice a year, they change it on a different schedule than US/Canada.
For a few weeks during the year, half of your meetings start at a different time. Everyone is confused.
Now add southern hemisphere
Why? Can't people adjust their schedules as needed?
Schools don't have to always start at the same time? And many jobs also not?
It's not like 9-17 work hours are set on stone?
And coordinating that change would be easier you think?