[time-nuts] The future of UTC

Magnus Danielson magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Sun Jul 17 14:43:56 UTC 2011


On 17/07/11 16:21, Peter G. Viscarola wrote:
>> Call your local politician ?  DST is a national matter, so all you have to do is convince your politicians[1].
>
> Actually, in most countries not a "national" matter... but more typically a local (state/province/canton/prefecture) political matter.
>
> For example there are US States that don't observe daylight savings time (a good example is Arizona... they just don't need more daytime hours there apparently), as there are in Australia.

USA is not very representative in this respect.

Here in Europe, except for Russia and Denmark it is vairly easy to bring 
in the county in one time-zone and that's why its been done on govrement 
level.

Mainland Denmark (which in itself is a lot of islands) is one time-zone, 
but Greenland and Færø-islands don't fit that time.

Actually, if you look at the map some countries is skewed in the time 
compared to their geographical position.

Cheers,
Magnus



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