Sergiusz Wolicki said:
The bill is not considered conflicting with EU regulations, which only require DST changes to be synchronized across EU but do not actually mandate the use of DST.
Hmm. Article 2 says "From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall begin, in every Member State, at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in March." It doesn't say "Where a member state observes a summer-time period, ...". Article 1 similarly doesn't use wording like "where applied". The literature on the topic on the EU site all seems to assume that having summer time is mandatory. If I tried hard I could probably bring an argument to the opposite forward, but I suspect a court would throw it out. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646