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This will 100% not happen, it's another one of those things that the EU parliament votes that everyone ignores, and it's perfect ammunition for those complaining that it makes laws without popular consultation.
Trying to go forward with this change will generate massive anti EU backlash.
And then you have the UK problem. Having variable time offsets between EU and UK would add yet another layer of disruption on top of Brexit.
That's not accurate.
>This online consultation, which ran from 4 July to 16 August 2018, received 4.6 million responses from all 28 Member States, the highest number of responses ever received in any Commission public consultation. According to the preliminary results (see annex), 84% of respondents are in favour of putting an end to the bi-annual clock change.
But what about the 99% rest of population? It's a mistake thinking that because they dont realllly care they will accept either way.
Resistance to change is huge, especially when it plays into the narrative "Bruxelles demanded it"
And what I meant by lack of popular consultation is that if you go on EU streets and ask about this change 95% of people will have no idea what you are talking about.
It's worse than just EU/UK offset. You would have Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in different timezones.
The consultation had 4.6 million responses.
> Having variable time offsets between EU and UK would add yet another layer of disruption on top of Brexit.
So?
A disproportionate amount of which were from Germany (2/3 of the responses, even though Germany only is only ~ 16 % of the EU-population pre-Brexit).
That's definitely not accurate.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Europe
France should probably, AFAICT, be in WET (like the UK) and Spain definitely should be. Solar time offsets are quite off for them:
* http://blog.poormansmath.net/how-much-is-time-wrong-around-t...
* https://github.com/stefano-maggiolo/solar-time-vs-standard-t...
> The EU decided to chicken out and let the members decide for themselves
There are reasons the EU doesn't just enforce timeZones across its members.. So this is a 'strange' comment that bothered me.
At least all the institutions got it right, so it was enough to announce "Windows|Red Hat|iOS|Android|whatever is wrong today, ignore it and use some other clock".
