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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by klodolph on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:23PM (#18009682)
It's not just a matter of economic sense, it's also an issue of whether children are walking to and from school in the dark (or how dark, or how much time spent in the dark, etc).

Compare Naples: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/italy/naples

And Stockholm: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/stockholm

Some people in HN seem to have the opinion that businesses should just adjust their working hours... but isn't that what DST does? It coordinates the change of business working hours across many businesses.

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by tjoff on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:32PM (#18009789)
Children will walk to+from school in the dark regardless of summer/winter-time in Sweden.

So glad we are about to get rid of this nonsense.

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by John_KZ on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:11PM (#18010119)
But why should we have to lose this benefit? If Sweden or Germany doesn't want DST, good. Vote to abolish it. In your own country. But why should Italy and Spain be forced to do the same?

It's obviously a rhetorical question, and unfortunately it just demonstrates with comical intensity how the EU works.

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by noinsight on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:53PM (#18011153)
> If Sweden or Germany doesn't want DST, good. Vote to abolish it. In your own country. But why should Italy and Spain be forced to do the same?

Currently they can't because DST is an EU regulation. This action is about removing the regulation. Individual states are then free to do whatever they want.

This is why this whole EU thing began - Finland wanted to get rid of DST but couldn't due to the EU regulation so Finland went to the EU to have it removed and now it will be.

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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019 by jeltz on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @08:28AM (#18014641)
Kids walking to school in the dark is normal in Sweden, especially in the northern parts, so as a Swede I am not sure what the big deal is. Just make sure they get plenty of breaks during the school day when the sun is up.
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