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by Freak_NL 932 days ago
That line putting the whole Benelux, France, and Spain on one side of the divide (Western European Time) and Germany, Switzerland, and Italy on the other (Central European Time) makes this proposal just about dead in the water.
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amai 931 days ago
Central European Time in Benelux, France and Spain is basically Hitler time, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478402

If people would become aware of that the proposal might have more chances.

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Freak_NL 931 days ago
It's not a secret or anything. People won't care that the German occupation had anything to do with it, because before that Amsterdam Time ran 19 minutes and 32.13 seconds ahead of Greenwich! No one wants to go back to a timezone like that in the twenty first century.

Hitler actually did us a favour on that front.

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