Just wanted to say that here in the EU we have voted to abolish time changing, with the countries deciding if they want to stick with the summer time or winter time. https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/summertime_en
> On 26 March 2019, the European Parliament adopted its position on the Commission proposal, supporting a stop to the seasonal clock changes by 2021. The Council has not yet finalised its position.
It’s not done yet. The process was handled a bit amateurishly unfortunately, which resulted in delays and push back.
I don't think we did. The European Commission held a non-representative (e.g. Germans were overrepresented) poll that said people prefer abolishing it.
Which is fine: not every decision needs to be voted on. But we shouldn't fool ourselves that it was a democratic process either.
It was a crappy Internet poll (brigaded like all Internet polls), with extremely closed and loaded questions on top of that.
Cherry on the cake, the EU server crashed when I tried to validate my answers and comment, so they never got my opinion... Not like they cared anyway, since they had put the answer they wanted to get, in the question.
I'm not holding my breath for the implementation of this decision. After the public poll, politicians quickly claimed to want to implement this right away. Just to descend into the usual inability to decide upon anything (who wants which time zone, how do we align neighbouring timezones, do we want a timezone-difference between France and Germany (that geographically should be there, etc) that is characteristic for the EU.
My prediction is that the abolition will be delayed for another 7 or 8 years, after which they will just decide to drop the matter since "it's already a decade old".
EU laws have fixed implementation deadlines and financial penalties for failing to implement them. If it completes the legislative process, it will happen. But indeed said process could be slow.
It’s not done yet. The process was handled a bit amateurishly unfortunately, which resulted in delays and push back.