Europe goes into daylight saving time despite controversy – DW – 03/30/2025
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Most Europeans woke up on Sunday clocks that jumped forward by one hour. The twice-annual time change has long been contentious and was even voted against in an EU open consultation back in 2018.

Summary

Most European countries moved clocks forward one hour on Sunday, marking the start of daylight saving time (DST), a practice increasingly criticized.

Originally introduced during World War I to conserve energy, DST returned during the 1970s oil crisis and now shifts Central European Time to Central European Summer Time.

Despite a 2018 EU consultation where 84% of nearly 4 million respondents supported abolishing DST, implementation stalled due to member state disagreement.

Poland, currently holding the EU presidency, plans informal consultations to revisit the issue amid broader geopolitical priorities.

  • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    New Zealand entomologist George Hudson first proposed modern DST.

    Easy to google, bud. Also, the concept is ancient.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      That guy was in 1895, which is a hundred years after Ben Franklin suggested it, but neither of them were responsible because it wasn’t adopted until the early 20th century in Canada, Germany, Austria, and the USA.

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Well thanks. TIL.

        Having said that, “mentioning” is not inventing.

        It would be cool if we had fat burning pizza. There you have it. I mentioned it first, so I invented it.