Re: [tz] Finland urges EU to stop daylight savings time

Edwin Groothuis wrote:

Is the current EU regulation about when DST should start and stop. not whether or not it actually gets implemented?

It's unclear on the latter point. The regulation is written with an unstated assumption that DST occurs, as if that's a law of nature; the regulation tells you how to handle this thing that inevitably happens. It's an open legal question whether this regulation confers an obligation to implement DST, given a point of view where it is conceivable to not implement DST. Informed observers have opined both ways on this. -zefram