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

[Henry Crun]

On 02/04/2019 18:53, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 
no rods, chains or links,but:

Decimetre - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimetre

The decimeter (SI symbol dm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one tenth of a metre (the International 
System of Units base unit of length), ten centimetres or 3.937 inches.

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