[Info-vax] EU will abandon daylight savings time in 2021

[Ian Miller]

On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 4:51:50 PM UTC, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Now here's a smart idea. The European Parliament (EU) just voted to end daylight savings time in 2021
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/daylight-savings-time-european-union.html
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> https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707179979/european-parliament-moves-toward-ending-daylight-saving-time
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> The main reason given was that Europe's closest trading partners, China and Russia, do not shift their numerous number of time zones, and having Europe change its clocks twice annually was bad for business between all.
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> Neil Rieck
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
> http://neilrieck.net/links/openvms_resources.html

It's nice that people here are catching up with this discussion which has been going on for quite some time unofficially outside of EU organisations and officially within the EU organisations. The decision has been made so what is now needed is country level decisions and then implementation. I hope VSI pick up the new time zone files and update the new rule promptly when this is defined. I wonder if HPE will issue a patch - I suspect they won't. The HPE OpenVMS rule can be updated by each customer. Something to look forward to doing next year and the year after.