Apparently Florida's senators recommended the same for the US last month, for similar reasons. To date, it doesn't seem to have gone much of anywhere, apart from Twitter. https://abc11.com/daylight-saving-time-ends-2020-when-does-end-dst/6425979/ -- Tim Parenti On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 04:35, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Kevin Lyda said:
It seems unlikely, but there have been suggestions in Ireland to stay with summer time this year to deal with COVID-19. It's at the tail end of this story:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/coronavirus-tighter-restrictions-mull...
Surely such a proposal would breach Directive 2000/84/EC.
Out of interest, would a release to support such a change be possible?
I think we'd need to see more than just "a proposal" before making such a change. Normally we would expect to see actual legislation.
(How does Ireland implenet EU Directives? Direct transposition into law or rewriting them the way the UK does?)
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