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Everyone wants this and it's taking decades....
I very never heard anyone discussing this in real life outside of maybe 6 days a year. Much less so since smartphones became people's primary clocks since they auto adjust.
People also don't agree on which time should be kept.
6 days a year is quite a bit, but also the frequency at which it comes up in conversation is not really relevant to whether people want/don't want?
Sure, but then the question is: Winter time or summer time?
I'm not sure if the European people are equally united in this question.
Science says winter. If you want to wake up earlier to compensate you can just do that.
I can't just finish work an hour early though. I'm looking forward to summer time because it means an extra hour of daylight after work. I don't want to give that up.
Personally I really don't care which, though it would be nice if there was some kind of consistency throughout Europe and not having e.g. France and Germany in one time zone but Netherlands or Belgium in another.
If I was dictator I think it seems reasonable to draw lines west and east of Germany, maybe Poland can be included in Germany's zone too.
A wild idea would be to have the lines cross through countries so they're actually "correct" and the EU is seen as a whole entity rather than just individual countries, but that's probably quite impossible/impractical. Beautiful in a way though, surely a man can dream.
There's no such thing as "Summer time". What we have during winter is the astronomical time. Otherwise, I don't know whether I have a preference. I guess we could switch them up every other year or so, in order to sunset any confusion in the morning.
They're not. Not at all. That's why all the previous attempts to abolish time changes failed.
Doesn't matter. If the difference of 12:00 to natural noon is small just don't care, if it's large then a 9 to 5 can be an 11 to 7 where's the fucking problem, we can all switch to one zone and be fine.
I always say it's pretty simple: scrap DST and shift timezone by 30 minutes. It may not be pretty if every observing country did not the same, but there are already countries using this system, like India.
Summer time. Every time. I'd rather it not be pitch black at 4pm where I am. I'd rather take the extra bit of darkness in the morning.
I also love it being 9pm in June and still having near full daylight โค๏ธ