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

[Baldrick]

On Thursday, 28 March 2019 16:51:50 UTC, Neil Rieck  wrote:
> Now here's a smart idea. The European Parliament (EU) just voted to end daylight savings time in 2021
> 

Hmmm. I suppose most of Europe is latitude 50 or lower and DLS is not very meaningful season to season.

For those north of the wall (55+ N) the daylight and hours make a big difference.

I'm around 53 N in the UK and changing the clocks is a compromise of making the best of the daylight. When I've travelled to places closer to the equator, day and night moves little. A recent visitor I had from South Africa was almost perplexed by the winter time darkness, and by locking the clocks we're either condemning ourselves to losing the light as the afternoon starts, or having summers light until virtually midnight, and that's just this latitude.

Winter is coming could be as bad as summer is coming.

Maybe I shouldn't say the B word, but where does that leave the UK if we have our own laws. A recent poll suggested leaving clocks on summertime was preferred but I suspect the bulk of the UK population are 51 degrees north and lower.

It isn't until the dead of winter or the height of summer (and a months or two either side) you appreciate what clock changing does for us in the north.

Didn't the US adopt different dates for "energy saving"? Is that ruled out now with better efficiency LED lights? Europe effectively banned incandescent lighting.

The world is quite stark.