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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/2/2019 3:17 AM, 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 difference would be people's capability to adapt.

For example, I "know" what an inch is.  I have to think of what a mm is, 
and then convert 25.4 into an inch.  Without lots of conversion, I am 
unable to work in the metric system of measurement, and most often just 
avoid it.  dumb metric system doesn't even have anything equivalent to a 
foot.

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