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Latest article I could find is this one: https://www.thejournal.ie/eu-plans-to-abolish-clock-changes-6024800-Mar2023/

I know the EU can be a bit slow, but the vote was held in 2019, seems like enough time elapsed since then.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Honestly, just give me one time for everything world-wide and then have - gasp - people get up at different times. It would make things so much easier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Aweful idea: do you want to plan a meeting at 16:00 with colleagues in the US? It is very hard to tell if this makes sense without timezones. Is this in their working day? Or the equivalent of midnight? Or something else? There are no timezones, so there is no way of telling without looking at some shady website how many hours you are shifted - which is basically the concept of timezones anyway, but shittier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the whole of China have like one single time zone and they do exactly this?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In China the vast vast majority of people live in a single timezone at the coast, so this is not really comparable.

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