End of Winter/Summer time switch?

[boycott]

The EU is set to end the practice of switching between summer and winter time after a survey found most EU citizens are against it.
More than 80 per cent of EU citizens wanted to abolish the bi-annual switch currently required by law, president Jean-Claude Juncker said on German television.
Juncker said the poll suggested that citizens preferred staying on summer time, adding he would put the plan to a debate among EU commissioners.

'We carried out a survey, millions responded and believe that in future, summer time should be year-round, and that's what will happen,' he told public broadcaster ZDF, adding that the European Commission planned to decide on the matter later Friday.

'I will recommend to the commission that, if you ask the citizens, then you have to do what the citizens say,' said Juncker, speaking in German.
'We will decide on this today, and then it will be the turn of the member states and the European Parliament.'
Any change would still need approval from national governments and European Parliament to become law.

EU law requires that citizens in all 28 EU countries move their clocks an hour forward on the last Sunday in March and switch back to winter time on the final Sunday in October.
But Finland, with the most northerly EU national capital, this year called for the EU to halt the practice, which critics say it can cause long-term health problems, especially among young children and elderly people.
Research has shown that the time change disrupts sleep schedules and can impact productivity at work.
Supporters say making the switch to give extra morning daylight in winter and evening light in summer can help reduce traffic accidents and save energy.
Outside the EU, a handful of European countries have stopped switching between summer and winter time, including Russia, Turkey, Belarus and Iceland.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ncker.html

[Dominic]

When I was at uni I shared a room with two Malaysian students. I tried to explain that we had to put the clocks back and they thought I was winding them up.

[memory man]

we had to put the clocks back and they thought I was winding them up.

There's a joke there somewhere

[Dominic]

When was the last time you wound a clock up?

[ApusApus]

I don't know anybody called Clock to wind up!


Shane

[Firefly]

80% of EU citizens, funny, I must have missed seeing the survey, did any other EU members see it and vote ?

Lloyd, we cannot accept a majority vote, it's not the done thing

Jackie

[cyprusmax47]

It looks like that a decision is not before 2020 as the EU Parliament and the member states have to be asked beforehand.

Max

[mike strand2]

80% of EU citizens, funny, I must have missed seeing the survey, did any other EU members see it and vote ?

Lloyd, we cannot accept a majority vote, it's not the done thing Jackie

Yes, I did cast my vote. For as long as I can remember, the clocks have changed Spring & Autumn. At my time of life, I hate change!

[zorbathejock]

I never change my clocks, I just change the time on them. Neither do I put my clocks forward as they fall off the shelf if I do.

[Firefly]

That's funny too.

[J B]

Come on folks ..........

Did nobody notice it's the Daily Wail???

[trevnhil]

I hope that Cyprus will choose to keep Summer time. It seems crazy to me to make it darker in the early evenings..

[ApusApus]

It's academic really, once we standardise on one or the other then it becomes a lazy bird or an early starter that suffers!


Shane

[smudger]

Would have made a difference when I had kids in school or when I was working, but now, no effect at all. I do remember when they changed it for a trial period in UK and it was a problem, I thought, getting kids to school in the dark.

[Yioula]

It made a big difference to Cyprus when they did not choose BST October was like mid Winter a sure way of killing Winter toursim before it’s on the starting blocks..........

[trevnhil]

I feel sure there would be more tourists enjoying the lighter evenings..

[bromerzz]

It would mean more chance of getting a mid- afternoon round of golf completed - so all for it.

[jeba]

Cyprus and Greece were the only countries in which the majority of those who bothered to participate voted against doing away with clock change. I wonder why.

[trevnhil]

You wonder why... Maybe it was because the vote was not widely publicised... I never saw anywhere that I could cast my vote.
If anyone else on here voted can you tell me how and where you managed to cast a vote.

[J B]

What is? The figure I quoted were nothing todo with any UK newspaper...

The OP was

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ncker.html

I didn't say I was replying to you ... did I?