EU will scrap biannual clock changes,
I dont know if this will effect all Countries or exactly when it will take place... I assume from next year or onwards...and unlikely from this October....
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The EU will scrap biannual clock changes, Jean-Claude Juncker has pledged, in a move that poses another headache for Brexit negotiators.
Following an online consultation, which received 4.6 million responses from across all 28 EU countries, the European Commission has revealed 84% want to abolish the act of daylight saving.
"We carried out a survey, millions responded and believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that's what will happen," Mr Juncker, the European Commission President, told German TV on Friday.
"I will recommend to the commission that, if you ask the citizens, then you have to do what the citizens say.
"We will decide on this today, and then it will be the turn of the member states and the European Parliament."
Under current EU rules, since 1996 all member states have been changing their clocks forward by one hour on the last Sunday of March, and by one hour backward on the last Sunday of October.
That will end if the commission sees its recommendation accepted by MEPs and member states.
The proposal has prompted concern about a "time border" on the island of Ireland after Brexit - with Belfast and Dublin on different times.
The commission pushed back at suggestions the plan could even see different time zones established within the UK after Brexit.
Under the EU's "backstop" proposal for avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, if such a frontier is not averted by the future EU-UK relationship, Brussels wants Northern Ireland to remain under the rules of its single market.
The spokesman refused to speculate on how this scenario would interact with the clocks proposal, amid claims it could leave Belfast an hour ahead or behind London.
Running from 4 July until 16 August, the online consultation attracted the highest number of responses ever received by the EU for any such survey.
However, preliminary results released by the commission reveal wildly different participation rates across the bloc.
For example, roughly three million Germans took part in the consultation (3.79% of the country's population); but less than 15,000 UK citizens participated (0.02% of the UK population) and only around 8,000 Romanians gave their view (0.04% of the country's population).
Mediterranean countries such as Cyprus, Greece and Malta were most against abolishing clock changes.
Daylight saving has been a twice-yearly event in the UK since 1916.
One of its keenest campaigners was William Willett, said to be the great-great-grandfather of Coldplay singer Chris Martin, who wanted to avoid the waste of daylight in summer months.
Previous calls for the UK to remain permanently on summer time have proved unpopular in Scotland.
It is claimed the even darker winter mornings would make it more dangerous for youngsters travelling to school.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/eu-will-scrap-biannual-clock-changes-says-juncker/ar-BBMI8QE?ocid=BHEA000
Quote from: astr0144 on September 01, 2018, 06:32:45 PM
EU will scrap biannual clock changes,
I dont know if this will effect all Countries or exactly when it will take place... I assume from next year or onwards...and unlikely from this October....
It's only a proposal, it may or may not be accepted.
I don't like the idea because summer time is the fake one, winter time being the real one, so instead of having a fake time during half of the year to save money we will have a fake time the whole year because of less than 2% of the population, mostly from Germany.
In the US, Arizona and Hawaii stay on standard time year round. They seem to do just fine.
Some people are complaining that it will affect mostly young children, as in winter they will have to start school before sunrise, something that doesn't happen now, at least on the southern countries.
In northern countries (from most of the votes came from) they either already start classes before sunrise or have a different timetable to account for that.
Seriously, I doubt this will pass from the proposal phase.