EU citizens: The Commission has fixed the capacity problems with their summer time hearing survey: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner… Software engineers, now is your chance to channel your feelings about time zones and daylight saving time in a constructive way.
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I responded that we should abolish time switching and should leave Eastern European time on permanent winter time and Central European time on permanent summer time to reduce the number of time zones in the Single Market.
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Replying to @hsivonen
Moving Europe to the Chinese-style (at least for Mandarin speakers) single timezone? If so, maybe it would make more sense to use UTC+1 rather than UTC+2, given that so much of CET (Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) really belongs in UTC rather than UTC+1?

Jul 8, 2018 · 7:48 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @hsivonen
That said, I think summer time changes *do* make sense, particularly if you live between about 15 and 50 degrees from the equator. I think it's a decent approximation for (otherwise mathematically harder, but nicer) sunrise-relative time, rather than noon-relative time.
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Replying to @davidbaron
UTC+1 would probably make more sense overall but would be a larger departure from the Overton Window for this hearing.
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Replying to @davidbaron @hsivonen
I'm sure the French (and least in the south) and Spanish like the longer evenings in the summer that UTC+2 gives.