Paul Eggert wrote in <e60fef5f-4752-c62e-f063-23f15efe948a@cs.ucla.edu>: |John Wilcock wrote: |> https://ec.europa.eu/info/consultations/2018-summertime-arrangements_en | |Thanks for the heads-up. A draft comment to the EU is attached. --End of <e60fef5f-4752-c62e-f063-23f15efe948a@cs.ucla.edu> An Austrian news magazine reports that 80 percent of all participants voted for dropping the time switch, yet many voted for always keeping summer time. I have also participated, and it must be said that these where leading questions in an alerting way. I had the impression that this was wanted, maybe even for automated prefiltering, .. but then again, isn't that also unthinkable. I have been outvoted by many. Commented i had that children should not go to school in the dark, that i have seen a real (non overexposed through human light pollution) night sky only two times in my whole life, and the rest i have forgotten. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)