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The bottom-up approach
As mentioned in the Background, my proposal is to side step the de-facto block on the abolition of Summer Time by gently moving into time zone UTC field by field. My choice of UTC is mainly because it doesn’t have Summer Time. It’s also close enough to the time zones in use today. Some fields…
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Background
The European Parlament voted in favor of the European Commission’s proposal to abolish Summer Time with the plan of ending it in 2021. Five years later, it’s still blocked by a disagreement between the European Commission and the Counsil of the European Union. Should we settle on the Standard Times we have or pick Summer…
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UTC at home
Do you have a clock which doesn’t update itself when switching between standard time and summer time? My microwave oven has one, so I set it to UTC and convert to my time zone in my head. Now that I’m used to it, I never need to update it again.