The EU seems to get rid of the habit of changing the clocks around twice a year, in an exercise of listening to public feedback.
He said that the decision was taken after a vast majority of EU citizens — primarily from Germany — who took part in a survey on the issue called for an end to biannual clock changes.
Massive support for halting daylight saving time
Over 80 percent of respondents supported abolishing changing the clocks in summer and winter in a survey that ran between July 4 and August 16, according to media reports on the results.
It’s interesting that the EU seems to be able to coordinate currently on an issue like this where the right answer is more or less obvious but where the coordination problem is massive.
Do we have other similar problems with obvious answers that are just a matter of getting enough people coordinated?
I wouldn’t call the answer obvious. I’m not even sure if I could have guessed the majority view on this beforehand. Why do you think it’s obvious? Are there no upsides to changing or are the downsides too significant?
We can detect that when we switch between “normal” and “daylight saving” time bad things happen at the transitions. But that doesn’t mean that switching is worse than not switching. We don’t know what bad things would happen when if we didn’t switch.
(E.g., one reason for the bad things is that people’s sleep pattern is disturbed and that has bad health effects. But it might also be bad for sleep to have dawn as early relative to the hours people want to sleep as it would be in the middle of summer without dayli
The EU seems to get rid of the habit of changing the clocks around twice a year, in an exercise of listening to public feedback.
It’s interesting that the EU seems to be able to coordinate currently on an issue like this where the right answer is more or less obvious but where the coordination problem is massive.
Do we have other similar problems with obvious answers that are just a matter of getting enough people coordinated?
I wouldn’t call the answer obvious. I’m not even sure if I could have guessed the majority view on this beforehand. Why do you think it’s obvious? Are there no upsides to changing or are the downsides too significant?
The main argument in favor of changing time zones that it supposedly saves energy doesn’t seem to be true these days.
Two examples of issues: People seem to work 16 minutes less the Monday after daylight savings. It also increases heart attacks.
We can detect that when we switch between “normal” and “daylight saving” time bad things happen at the transitions. But that doesn’t mean that switching is worse than not switching. We don’t know what bad things would happen when if we didn’t switch.
(E.g., one reason for the bad things is that people’s sleep pattern is disturbed and that has bad health effects. But it might also be bad for sleep to have dawn as early relative to the hours people want to sleep as it would be in the middle of summer without dayli