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

[Fred.Zwarts]

"Hans Vlems"  schreef in bericht 
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>In reply to Phillip’s remark that some countries have the option to return 
>to their proper time zone: how may countries in Europe are west of 
>Greenwich? Put differently, have a look at the map how the 0 meridian 
>divides Europe.
>I’m in the Netherlands, tiny country and its around 5 degrees east of 
>Greenwich. So that woul put us on UK time. Brexit aside, most of our 
>commercial stuf is done with Germany. Opting for the German time zone will 
>work, before DSTgot introduced we did just that even though it gets us up 
>rather early in the morning. If Germany would elect for DST (UTC+2) 
>permanently then we’d be even more out of sync with the sun.
>Hans

Somewhat more than century ago each town had his own time based on the 
position of the sun, but because of the railways the coupling with the 
position of the sun was broken. Larger regions coordinated their times. Now 
that airplanes are becoming common, and the speed of communication has 
increased so much  it might be time for the next step. Why don't we stop all 
those different time zones. If the whole world would be on UTC, 
communication would be so much easier.
The coupling of the time to the position of the sun is rather arbitrary. In 
earlier time one started to count the hours from sunrise, not from midnight. 
So, what difference would it make to start your working day at 3 o'clock 
instead of 8 o'clock if the sun is still at the same position?