On Sep 7, 4:31am, Chris Carrier wrote:
What the EU might consider would be the adoption of something similar to the Uniform Time Act in the United States; set the dates for summer time but
allow
member states to opt out of the summer time provision if they so choose.
But that would destroy the whole purpose of the Commission's work to synchronise the change dates, so as to keep a fixed, mostly zero, offset between the times in the member states.
Has anyone heard anything about the release date of the 8th Directive?
Well, the official schedule is still to have a Directive agreed by the Council of Ministers by 1 Jan 97. I doubt that this will happen as all previous ones I know of have been late. I reported the Commissions proposals here in May. They were another 4 years of the current rules: year start end 1998 29 Mar 25 Oct 1999 28 Mar 31 Oct 2000 26 Mar 29 Oct 2001 25 Mar 28 Oct If the French are now going to take a few months or so to decide what they want it virtually guarantees that the 8th directive will be late. Peter Ilieve peter@aldie.co.uk