The European Union has switched again on Sunday the clocks. The time change will be with us for a long time, because the EU is tangled totally. Oh times, oh customs, says Riegert correspondent Bernd.
Time heals all wounds? This saying does not apply to the EU unfortunately. On the contrary, The longer problems on the time axis are further pushed, the more complicated they are. This relates to the big crises, such as the Brexit, and little things like the abolition of the time change.
Trifles? Far from it. A year ago the EU Commission proposed the abolition of the semi-annual time change requires time and time. The member States of the EU can not agree on despite the many vertrödelter consulting hours, who is eliminating what time is what time or maintains.
And ever! Some States want to make feasibility studies and coordinating committees. The EU Commission rejects the. She was in a hurry, because the topic should be of Jean-Claude Juncker cleared, before his (official)time runs out as President of the Commission. Nothing will come of it. The trip back in time before the year 1996, before the summer was standardized in all EU countries, could develop into a timeless classics of European quarrels. In Brussels, bets, what is first produced: the Brexit, or the abolition of time, so the summer time already. Or do you prefer the winter time?
The Zone In which it lives better?
Some States would like to retain the summer time, because it is in the morning, later on light. Some find the winter time is better, because it is in the morning, early light. And Vice-versa. It is a cheerful colorful patchwork of users and dropouts threatens from the Central time management within the three time zones of the EU.
Speaking Of Time Zone. Spain is considering to leave the Central European time zone and UK time, i.e. Greenwich Mean Time, to introduce. That would be geographically a lot more sense. Also Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France would be purely lifted from the position of the sun as seen in the GMT is much better.
Europe Correspondent Bernd Riegert
The European Parliament had originally set the year 2021 as the date for the big summer time-winter time Reform. However, the member States waving: to little time, to meet the complex preparations. But preparations for what actually? The EU-candidate country, Turkey has demonstrated how to do this without a lot of time and effort. 2016 President Erdogan decided the permanent introduction of daylight saving time, which catapulted his country, de facto, in a time zone that is now two hours away from Berlin and three hours from London.
Direct democracy is crap
How could it come to this? A look into the history helps. The summer time is a Remnant of the First world war, as a military, more light, for their senseless slaughter wanted to have. In the Second world war, the Germans introduced them for it. For the third Time, was then shot with the big oil crisis in 1973 on the watch to save energy. In 1996, finally, the Whole thing was – at that time, it was thought for all times – an EU law.
In 2018, an Online survey in the EU, led to the result that the vast majority of the 4.6 million participants wish for an end to the time change, because it is supposedly better for the health because it is supposed to in the evening used to be bright or dark. Or was that in the morning? In this survey, the not for the will of the European people, although it was not representative and should now be the basis for the decisions. The Zeitgeist shows: direct democracy, participation of citizens.
What the Referendum was already at the Leaving-wrong, could be repeated at the time of voting. Some of the supposed will of the people can not or only with very much time to implement. In both cases, the time not ago is of the essence of the thing. The time pressure is artificially generated by political forces. And also in the summer/winter time should be at the end maybe a second Referendum, in order to assess the whole Problem in the light of its possible consequences.
The one and only: The local time according to the sun
Freedom and sun
Time will tell! My would be that we introduce simply the sun time. At each location, a different time, the local time, which can be read on the position of the sun is, Yes, geographically. When the sun is at its highest, it is 12 o’clock. Finished. The artificially introduced global time zones are, in fact, an anachronistic paternalism.