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🕒 I hate DST 🕓

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How can we get rid of it? It does not make any sense anymore

Onchain Builder. Formerly: Edge & Node / The Graph, Melonport (Enzyme)

I thought they voted to get rid of it in the EU right? But then something happened ... or did not happen?

To be honest I do not know why it's still being observed.

Was there a vote? Wow. I wonder what are the arguments to keep it? Nostalgia?

yeah ... it's weird: https://www.wired.com/story/2023-daylight-saving-time/

Thanks for digging up that article. Bureaucracy at its best:

The European Parliament voted in 2019 to stop changing clocks, but it didn’t get the approval it needed from the European Union’s other legislative body, the European Council. The Council then shoved the issue to the EU’s executive, …

The whole story is even weirder - the parliament voted because the European Commission had organised an online vote for all EU citizens, where 84% voted in favour of abolishing. 
Only problem: the vote was not representative nor legally binding. 
The subsequent parliamentary vote was done last minute after…