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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait, is it not next week?

I do agree that we should end it, and I think most people agree. My part of the world (BC, Canada) is ready to drop it and it is waiting for the US states in our time zone to push it through their gridlocked politics. There's growing pressure to just give up on the US and just do it ourselves. Last I heard, there was bipartisan support in the US to also drop it, but there's always some other mess to clean up or some other partisan thing that gets stuffed into the bill.

As for winter time vs. summer time, I really do not care. Both options will hurt some people and help others.

Pick either one and stick with it

[–] Heggico@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

EU was last night/today (for me), US and Canada is first sunday of november right?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah makes sense, even weirder that we do it on different days.

What's the public sentiment like in the EU, are people close to dropping it?

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's being discussed but there's no agreement yet. The main debate is over whether to choose the same one (summer vs winter) for the whole EU. If we do, countries at the geographic extremes like Spain vs Finland will get shafted. If we don't and allow each country to pick one (or a completely new timezone even) we could end up with weird fragmented time zones where neighboring countries are all over the place.

We do agree for the most part that it needs to be dropped.

[–] Heggico@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Obviously I can't talk for everyone, but I have seen some shows and such on tv or on the internet in favour of dropping it. It would make sense to me as well, but it's not actively discussed politically afaik. I'm in the netherlands fyi.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The EU voted to drop it. It just hasn't actually happened yet. I think the last change was supposed to be in 2020 but a global pandemic got in the way.

[–] Heggico@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't know that, that would be great!

[–] bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

This is my favourite part of the whole ridiculous parade. For a good two weeks or so all my meetings with US colleagues are just chaos.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

You guys need to just do it. Some moron goes "won't someone think of the children!!1! (Except massacres)" and then we never do it. Canada doing it might actually push us to change.