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[โ€“] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

Let's hope they keep the summer time

Edit: I meant all year round. I hate that it gets dark so soon in the winter

[โ€“] Haarukkateroitin@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why not every country can decide what time they want to keep?

I believe this was the original EU plan. Scrap it, countries decide which timezone they want to stick with.

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[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I call bullshit. they've gotten rid of daylight savings and the 12-hour clock in most of Asia, but it'll never happen in Europe. democracy doesn't work like that. bullshit

[โ€“] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seems like EU members are currently mostly split on whether to keep summer time or the other the default (so the current system will stay)

Could they not move it to a halfway point between the two?

[โ€“] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (17 children)

YES! Get rid of that dumb shit!
Not sure what programmers have to say about this though. Ideally DST would've been scrapped like 30 years ago back when there were a lot fewer people using computers, so a lot of code wouldn't need updating as soon as such a change is implemented, but waiting will only worsen it.
I think keeping summertime is the better option. Having a bit of sunlight when you come home from school or work in winter would be priceless. Even if it means darker mornings.

[โ€“] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm a software developer. DST is a nightmare because it makes the clock jump (skip an hour in one direction, meaning there are wall clock times which don't exist, or backwards, meaning there are wall clock times that exist twice). I don't care whether we will settle on summer or winter time but please, just don't make it jump.

As a software dev myself: if time in your application's internals jumps on DST, something has been implemented incorrectly. That's what zone information is for, to make times uniquely identifiable and timers run the correct length. Getting the implementation right is hard, though. So, abolishing DST is very well worth it.

[โ€“] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I think keeping summertime is the better option. Having a bit of sunlight when you come home from school or work in winter would be priceless. Even if it means darker mornings.

This is why I doubt we'll get rid of it. A majority of people seem to dislike dst but not for the same reasons. I get up around 6. That already means about 3 hours of darkness during winter mornings as is. And in the afternoon I'm indoors anyway because it's cold. It'd be more convenient for me to sacrifice an hour of daylight on summer evenings. Then again the sun rising around 4 would be kind of a waste.

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[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Last push ended because of COVID. What's it going to be this time, Bird Flu or Texan Measels?

[โ€“] krebssteven@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

WWIII and no time to deprogram the military infrastructure aka MaaS to not adjust savings time.

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