The EU parliament didn't vote to abandon DST, they voted for letting countries decide if they want to do DST or if they want to stick to one time zone. Apparently most countries decided to stick with DST.

They should obviously keep standard time. No one wants light at 10pm!!!

On the other hand, if we had not saved daylight we would have probably ran out by now.

No. It's one hour too early.

Pick real time

And have to put up with Bill Maher? No thanks.

There's a large population where this has no meaning. The sun rises at 10 AM and sets at 1 PM in the winter here where I live. There's nothing to gain for us, only problems and missed meetings and school mornings and extra stress on kids and parents having to adjust their sleeping routines days in advance. It sucks ass, absolutely not worth it even if we did live in the very specific latitudes where this is perfect. Down with daylight savings! ✊

Standard time is objectively better for health. Brighter mornings is so much more important

Man that would fucking blow for so many people.

The date would change in the middle of a business day

Marvelous idea, let's disregard well established language and time critical systems already relying on the existence of timezones that can't easily be updated for... Being able to tell people your time without actually conveying information.

"Hey wanna play some videya" I ask my friends on another continent during noon "Sorry, its not quite dark yet but already too late for hideogame" -my friend, for whom the sun is still visible, but its a little bit too late, wishing there was a way to easily convey the fact that it is 21:00

Time zones may suck for programmers, but everyone who thinks even a little bit about human to human communication realizes how stupid it is. But I digress, were on lemmy; we dont do human to human communication often

For me summer time (where we have light during the evening) is the best! Nothing comes even close to it

I really don't care, just stop the switching.

Depends which side of EU. Same time for Spain and Poland makes little sense.

As a german, I'd prefer permanent daylight time, I want there to be longer light in the evening. I hate when during the winter months I leave the appartment when it is still dark outside and come back home when it's already dusk.

That said, I can see why this wouldn't work across the entire EU, Spain for example is already "an hour behind" in terms of daylight, because of their location, their DST means it's probably light outside at 22:00

I think scientific research is quite clear that a permanent standard / winter time is healthier and objectively the better choice.

Personally, I'd still prefer a permanent summer/ daylight saving time. During summer, when days are long, I don't really care. But in winter it's usually still dark when I start working and already dark when I finish. With permanent summer time, it might be slightly harder to get up in the morning, but I could at least get a bit of light in the afternoon.

In Iceland we have permanent Summer time and it's great. We go to work in the dark in either case during winter but having some daylight until 4 or 5 makes a big difference.

Time chaos in EU.

Imagine organizing military responses or shipping logistics when you can go under an hour then forward and then under an hour again just crossing 3 countries.