So much politics going on in this map.
The eternal UK ๐ค Portugal alliance and the awkward space it creates between them.
Spain and Poland are in the same timezones.
The weird corridor created by Belarus.
Ukraine is in a separate tz from Russia, I wonder when that was established
What the hell is going on with the light blue in the east?
Please remember that the curvature of this map is off, accurate would be a globe map. Its not that wild, EU has a common time zone because its better for business.
I thought many of the countries originally adopted it because of a certain mustache man.
That'd be most of them I think. Though it is right that we didn't change back after the war because it's convenient for business. And now everybody's holding off on getting rid of DST because some countries prefer permanent summer time and others permanent winter time (fucking degenerates, no I will not take anyone else's opinion on this, I am tired of explaining to people that time is made up but business hours won't change and therefore winter time = less/no daylight for office workers).
Anyway point is we'd probably have seen several countries switch timezones or off DST if business was not a concern.
When time comes up, everybody seems to forget that working hours can just change too. Why ruin the whole organisation of timezones by being in summer time randomly if you can be in regular time and just shift the working hours if you have a problem with it?
That's wishful thinking. Offices/shops/etc. will be open 8-6pm and that's just the way they're going to operate, because that's what's in the work contracts, insurance contracts, etc. It's fixed in stone.
However we do have a very powerful tool to shift the working hours for everyone: move the damn clocks one hour. Why is it such a catastrophe that the sun would be at its zenith at 1pm?
Getting rid of DST and keeping standard (winter) time means the same winters we currently have. The sun just sets and rises 'earlier' during the summer according to clocks if they weren't set to DST.
Yeah, that's the part I'm pissed off about. I get off work at 5:30, so I don't get to be out in the sun for MONTHS whereas if we were in summer time I would be able to catch the sunset even in December.
Nobody told the Irish, Greeks, Finns and Baltic states ?
The important parts of EU.
And Ireland is to far away and the common timezone would cause more trouble.