According to opinion polls, Romanians are about 50%-50% for permanent DST
vs. permanent standard time, but the permanent DST crowd seems to be more
vocal. Legislation is bogged down right now but in the current form it
appears to favour permanent standard time.

Dan Uza

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 1:13 PM Kurt Niel <kepler...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It is still a shame, that DST is really that prominent. I stay in Europe
> and hope we can get rid of it - dammned DST.
>
> I am still very emotional about it and see it as one of many homan made
> mistakes.
>
> Kurt
>
> Steve Lelievre <steve.lelievre.can...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 15. März
> 2022, 22:51:
>
>>
>> It seems the USA may be getting ready to abolish seasonal clock
>> changes.  The proposal has just passed in the Senate but still has to be
>> accepted by the House of Representatives, so we can't celebrate yet. (
>>
>> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-bill-that-would-make-daylight-savings-time-permanent-2023-2022-03-15/
>> )
>>
>> If it happens, Canada would quickly follow. In fact, here in British
>> Columbia it's already in law that we will switch to permanent DST once
>> Washington (state), Oregon and California have switched. The EU is
>> already on the same path but things have got bogged down with some
>> member countries yet to decide which timezone to adopt. EU-wide
>> preparations were further delayed due to the pandemic (
>>
>> https://www.thelocal.it/20211029/clocks-to-go-back-in-italy-despite-eu-deal-on-scrapping-hour-change/
>> ).
>>
>> I would have preferred permanent Standard Time over permanent
>> Daylight-saving Time but, even so, I hope the plans proceed. It will
>> certainly simplify the my designs for Civil Time sundials and Equation
>> Of Time signage.
>>
>> Cheers, Steve
>>
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