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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/28/19 4:00 PM, pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 2:58:04 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 3/28/2019 1:21 PM, pcanagnostopoulos at gmail.com wrote:
>>> On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 1:13:39 PM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 3/28/19 12:51 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>>> Now here's a smart idea. The European Parliament (EU) just voted to end daylight savings time in 2021
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/world/europe/daylight-savings-time-european-union.html
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707179979/european-parliament-moves-toward-ending-daylight-saving-time
>>>>>
>>>>> The main reason given was that Europe's closest trading partners, China and Russia, do not shift their numerous number of time zones, and having Europe change its clocks twice annually was bad for business between all.
>>>>
>>>> I am all for abandoning Daylight Savings Time.  But t not
>>>> for any fancy convoluted idea.  Just because it was a bad
>>>> idea that never made sense from the beginning.
>>>>
>>>> bill
>>>
>>> Which time would we pick? If we stay on DST, kids on the Western sides of the time zones are walking to school in the dark. If we stay on standard time, kids on the Eastern sides of the time zones are walking home in the dark. Perhaps select the half hour in between?
>>>
>>> ~~ Paul
>>>
>>
>> In 2019, kids are walking to school?  Not any I've seen lately.
> 
> They are in my town. And they are certainly waiting for the bus.
> 

Where I live they wait for the bus in their houses and come up
when it stops in front of their house.  Some of our school
districts cover a hundred square miles.  No one is walking to
school.  I did, but that was before they closed all the local
schools and built the remote Taj Mahals.

bill