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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by mongol on Sunday January 28, 2018 @03:53PM (#16253410)
I prefer to keep local time aligned with its historical roots, so that 12 is the hour closest to sun's highest point in the sky. What prevents society from adjusting to that?
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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by mpweiher on Sunday January 28, 2018 @03:59PM (#16253442)
It's a good idea. However, it is incompatible with having the same time across a fairly large swathe of longitudes.

The benefits of having a common time such as CET/MEZ for most of continental Europe outweigh the nicety of having 12 noon correspond to the high point of the sun's arc in the sky.

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by akvadrako on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:11PM (#16253526)
You could actually do even better and just make all of the EU one timezone - since it doesn't have much to do with high noon anyway.
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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by mpweiher on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:21PM (#16253585)
A good idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Time_zones_of_Europe.svg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by tonfa on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:25PM (#16253612)
You'd have to move western europe (France/Spain) to GMT for that to happen :)

(they stayed on CET/CEST after changing timezone during WWII)

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by skrause on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:35PM (#16253678)
Would that be a problem? I think CET is way too big anyway.

UTC makes sense for Spain and maybe France, UTC+1 is a perfect fit for Germany and Poland could be UTC+2.

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by troels on Sunday January 28, 2018 @03:58PM (#16253438)
As measured from where? CET is a pretty wide zone.
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