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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-04-05 kl. 17:48, skrev 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.

I'm in what I'd call "south of Sweden" at around 58.5 N and we sure have
a big difference.

Around 22'th of Dec we have 6h 18m daylight and the "night" is 17h 42m.
Sunrise at 08:44 and sunset at 15:04.

Around 21'th of June we have 18h 19m daylight and the "night" is 5h 41m.
And never really dark, it's like dusk and dawn just floats together.
Sunrise at 03:46 and sunset at 22:05.

At this time of year, the difference/week in sunrise and sunset times
is approx 20 minutes, or 40 minutes more light per week. Makes some
difference if you have fixed times in the morning and the afternoon...

But we up here just love it! :-)

People from abroad are amazed how differnt the swedes are between
winter and summer.


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,...

What you might need is a bit of "Orrdeeeeer!" instead... :-)

> 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.
>