If the UK doesn't follow suit going to be tricky for us.
While it might have been a bit better if they'd gone out and asked random people to respond, it's not that flawed a survey surely? Lots of people don't turn out to vote in much more important referenda, you never get everybody represented and for a trivial issue like this I'd imagine the turnout to a full referendum on it would be hilariously small. I'd say the people who felt strongly about this (4 million is pretty impressive I think) took the opportunity to vote in both directions and the result is pretty conclusive.but it's not 84% of Europeans, it's 84% of the 4.6 million who responded to the survey, i.e. 3.86 million of the EU's population of 840 million, i.e. 0.43% of Europeans, i.e. toss all.
It does not make it anymore difficult that having to deal with any other country that has a different timezone or a boarder with a country that has another timezone.
It makes a lot of difference for those people working on IT systems that struggle with the changing timezones. Twice yearly projects to coax systems through the change over.I would be neither for nor against. Im just fed up that for all of my living memory the issue of daylight saving hours crops up as a topical subject at least once, if not twice a year.
It makes no difference.
It makes a lot of difference for those people working on IT systems that struggle with the changing timezones. Twice yearly projects to coax systems through the change over.
Im no expert. But I cant imagine how people working in IT could 'struggle' with this? How do they cope in a leap year?
Many complex systems on different platforms. Some can deal with a time change automatically, some can't. Constantly changing environment.Im no expert. But I cant imagine how people working in IT could 'struggle' with this?
How do they cope in a leap year?
Many complex systems on different platforms. Some can deal with a time change automatically, some can't. Constantly changing environment.
Doubt it all you want but I've experienced it.
We have flights between Dublin and Madrid. If I remember long ago when SkyTv was a European station, all it's programming was listed as CET. We managed, just like with the Euro. Happens in US states too. I think it would be ok.There's simply no comparison between the UK and any other country in this regard - the level of interactions between Uk and Ireland that would be impacted is huge.
We don't have listings in the newspaper for Spanish TV, for example.
We don't have trains running between Dublin and Madrid.
Ditto. One of the more painful was a source code management system that got confused when a code check-in occurred that appeared to be earlier than one that was actually later because of the clock change ... causing all hell to break loose with corrupted code syncs.Many complex systems on different platforms. Some can deal with a time change automatically, some can't. Constantly changing environment.
Doubt it all you want but I've experienced it.
Good pointA bit misleading saying Summer time all year round though, some people will expect the weather too.
Not entirely arbitrary -- it's still synchronised with local solar midday and midnight, nowadays rounded by timezone. I suppose there are still a few applications tied to meridional crossings of celestial objects, though I'd admit they're obscure and probably few and far between. Navigation was the major one but that got solved by being able to synchronise time by telegraph in the 19th century and GPS today. Hobby astronomy and solar panel efficiency spring to mind, where you would be constantly needing to know the UTC offset from local solar time, even today.Time is just an arbitrary label. Just let everyone use UTC timezone. We'd eventually get used to it.
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