Not unilaterally per se, but EU parliament did vote to end it in ... 2021 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20190321IP... . COVID kind of put those plans on the backburner.
People at extreme latitudes should not care much, since for them DST does close to nothing.
The parent's proposal is actually quite sound. It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone. Countries at different latitudes would be free to switch e.g. school start times at different dates depending on when sunlight shifts too far in one direction, while keeping their clocks synchronised with astronomical time. Heck, Spain basically does that already, since they're on the wrong timezone (geography dictates they should be on British time, but because of events in the '40s, they're on Central European time) - so they do everything one hour "later".
This proposal is literally one-size-fits-all.
> It would be a lot more useful to have institutions switch their starting times for part of the year when it makes sense for them, rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution on everyone.
This is exactly how it works now. But there are a lot of institutions and they aren't coordinated.
you quoted half my sentence which creates an easy strawman.
Huh, why would it not happen unilaterally? Different countries already fiddle with their daylight savings times (or absence thereof) unilaterally, and the start of DST is not synchronised across the globe anyway.
So if you have two countries that start DST on different weeks that's already a hassle to deal with, and one of them going off DST altogether doesn't really add any extra hassle in their bilateral dealings.
Are you aware the contiguous United States is three times larger than India? Alaska alone is half the size of India and not at the same longitude as the lower 48. Hawaii is even farther west than most of Alaska. The easternmost point in the US is 66 degrees west. The westernmost is 179 degrees west. That’s nearly a third of the globe.
> Why can't they, for instance, simply declare that school/offices open at 10am instead of 9am for six designated months every year instead of imposing this adjustment on the entire world.
Is this a serious comment? Europe doesn’t have a central government. The most recent attempt to establish one was extremely unpopular and famously stopped in 1945.
Why should foreign schools and businesses change their hours to accommodate you? A more obvious solution would be to just stop observing DST but that’s not something that will happen unilaterally and will be an especially hard sell at extreme latitudes.
If you want to do business internationally you have to deal with timezones. India isn’t unique in that inconvenience.