Let’s just stop this nonsense.
I’m not even attached to winter or summertime, but just stick to one instead of changing it every six months.
Started a thread about this in !casualconversation@lemmy.world
Here’s the thing. In the US if your state wants to stop changing their clocks, the can do so right now. Arizona and Hawaii are already not changing their clocks. The problem is the people that want permanent DST. That takes an act of congress.
My suggestion. Get the legislators to stop with the clock changing bullshit, then get the employers to shift the working hours so people can have their extra daylight in the summer.
Step 1: Ask the people of Europe if they want to keep DST Step 2: Most of them say no but you keep it anyway Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit?
That poll really wasn’t representative. Very few people even realised that it was happening or how to find it. If I remember correctly it was more of a German domestic political happening that somehow got elevated to EU level.
EU figured that they’d need to leave it up to the individual states to decide.
I think most people still want to stop changing time, but they don’t necessarily agree on whether to keep normal time or daylight savings time.
Everyone is waiting for everyone else to set the new standar because no one wants wildly different time zones in Europe.
Sounds like California.
Unpopular opinion: Just get rid of time zones altogether and go with GMT.
We’re in the 21st century, our lives don’t need to be scheduled by the sun.
Not all that unpopular but it would require global coordination, for now best we can do seems to be more wars.
“The time wars” sounds kinda cool
Why do we need more sun, in summer, in Australia.
In summer, I’d rather have more daylight at 7:30pm than 4:30am.
Conversely, in the heat of summer, I don’t want to have to wait until 8:30pm for the sun to go down.
Terrible, terrible, terrible choice of colors. This maps make it seem like only developed countries use light saving times…
