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

[Joukj]

Fred.Zwarts wrote:
> "Hans Vlems"  schreef in bericht 
> news:7c659980-6dfc-494e-a85f-14329f46a087 at googlegroups.com...
>>
>> 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?

The problem is the railways again: They do not start that aearly so that 
I can get at my work in time.