Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time

Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by Promarged on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:05PM (#16253480)

Poland also wanted to remove daylight savings time (the project was in the lower house) but ultimately it was rejected because all EU countries need to use the same time (DST). It seems Finland is taking it further...

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by jwilk on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:25PM (#16253615)

EU in not in a single timezone; but all EU countries observe DST.

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

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by lgierth on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:11PM (#16253522)

Portugal, UK, Ireland have been in UTC for ages.

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by wyufro on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:15PM (#16253547)

And Finland is in UTC+2. The thing regulated is probably when DST starts and stops, not the timezones.

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by user5994461 on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:18PM (#16253566)

UK is GMT time. Do not confuse with UTC, it's not the same.

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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by dingaling on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:39AM (#16256900)

> Do not confuse with UTC, it's not the same.

GMT as a time standard is defunct. The Mean Sun no longer traverses his notional sky.

GMT as a civil time zone is based on atomic measures[0]. It is not measured from the meridian. This is the phrase used to indicate this in UK legislation:

In these Regulations Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the same time as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

[0] Time scale UTC(NPL)

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