Poland pushes for EU to scrap daylight saving time

As a programmer, DST creates tons of bugs for anything using time and is annoying. But whatever, I guess I get paid either way.

As a parent, DST is miserable. It's miserable as an adult, also, but multiplied misery when you have to get up early to ruin your kid's sleep. And then that night they're not ready to suddenly go to sleep an hour early so you lose an extra hour...

I hope Poland succeeds.

Everyone wants this and it's taking decades....

DST seems to be such a mess. We should start doing it state by state if EU doesn't want to do it all at the same time. Poland should lead the way and be the first

Instead of DST, why didn't we just shift working hours one hour earlier in winter? (I am in favor of getting rid of DST. I'm just asking why we decided to shift the clock instead of shifting working hours)

YES! Get rid of that dumb shit!
Not sure what programmers have to say about this though. Ideally DST would've been scrapped like 30 years ago back when there were a lot fewer people using computers, so a lot of code wouldn't need updating as soon as such a change is implemented, but waiting will only worsen it.
I think keeping summertime is the better option. Having a bit of sunlight when you come home from school or work in winter would be priceless. Even if it means darker mornings.

Last time there was a vote and most people wanted to remain in DST permanently. Somehow then the whole thing just died out. I don’t think it’s ever gonna happen

I had such high hopes back in 2018, I think France was pushing for it. Now 7 years later with still no progress I think the best bet is to move to China, India, Russia or Hawaii, or any African country except Egypt. Or South America except Chile. You see the overwhelming majority of people in the world don't have the DST bullshit.

Last push ended because of COVID. What's it going to be this time, Bird Flu or Texan Measels?

I we were in true democracies that thing would have been scrapped long ago. Not a single person like it or see any actual purpose on it.

Let's hope they keep the summer time

Edit: I meant all year round. I hate that it gets dark so soon in the winter

Fingers crossed

We want to stay in summer time though, right? Right?

Actually I quite like it. You get daylight in the morning in winter, and longer evenings in the summer.

Without DST you have to choose between: in winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, meaning you don't see any daylight apart from at weekends, which is especially depressing if you work in a place short on windows; OR you waste a bunch of daylight in the summer mornings and have shorter evenings when the weather is warmer and it's nicer to be outside.

I am a programmer. Not sure why this would be a problem. Just fix the computers to GMT+X and for the most part it won't matter. It's not as if I have to rewrite DST code every few months.

Meanwhile, Ohio wants to keep DST as their standard which is infuriating.

I understand wanting more light in the northern hemisphere early in the day. It adds safety for school children mostly in the winter months, but I don't understand why we can't just change the start and end times of school to coordinate more light at those crucial times of day.

YES! LET'S GO!

Living in eastern Japan for a decade, I don't miss changing the clocks and the misery around that time. I do wish east Japan would move by an hour, though; before 4am sunrises (getting light from 3-something) and dark before 5pm in the winter sucks.

Overslept for gaming session this year again. DST should have been abolished decades ago!

Really don't get the issue about keeping it? Its just a small adaptation, which should not bother anyone? A simple change every now and then keeps you flexible right, just go with the flow, and stop being bothered about such a small thing 😉

I call bullshit. they've gotten rid of daylight savings and the 12-hour clock in most of Asia, but it'll never happen in Europe. democracy doesn't work like that. bullshit

Move the clock an hour back in summer instead.

YEEEES

This is likely coming from PSL (farmer party, EPP) part of the government because they’ve been consistently interested in this matter over the years. I don’t think they have enough pull to achieve anything EU-wide but I believe Trump wanted to scrap DST in US too so maybe this is the time stars align finally.