event of interest: Future of Europe debates – The end of DST: how can it be placed back to the European agenda?
Hi all, I was just at events for the Barcelona Time Use initiative time use week 2021 and the panel on changing DST in Europe was very interesting and I thought some of you might want to take a look. It is free to sign up and you can access recordings of all the events including the one on time zones/DST. Description and link below. Loved that there was lots of talk about there being no problem having many more time zones in Europe as ‘our computers handle all of that for us now’. https://timeuseweek.beplanet.tv/en/ Future of Europe debates – The end of DST: how can it be placed back to the European agenda? In 2019, the European Parliament agreed to end the biannual clock change. Nevertheless, the Member States have not been able to achieve an agreement on which time zone has to be adopted. This debate explores how can we place back the debate on the European and Member States agenda. Representative of European Parliament Pending to confirm Maria Nikolopoulou European social and economic council Ticia Luengo International Association for Natural Time Till Roenneberg World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology Best, Michelle. --- Dr Michelle Bastian Mid-Career Fellow, Independent Social Research Foundation (Project info<https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/michelle-bastian/>) Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
On 10/25/21 09:16, BASTIAN Michelle via tz wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I don't see recordings there yet but I assume they'll be published in due course. If I had been there, my question would be "What will be the names of time zones in Europe if half of Europe sticks with standard time, the other half advances its clocks permanently, and the UK continues to switch back and forth?" For example, will "Central European Time" continue to mean UTC+1, or will it mean the time that Berlin observes even thought that becomes UTC+2; or will we come up with new names for the new time zone regime? Naming may sound like a minor issue but whichever way it's decided, a lot of reprogramming will need to be done. You might be surprised by how much software out there assumes that "CET" means UTC+1 despite our recommendations not to rely on these abbreviations. And it's not just software that will need reprogramming: the choice of names will affect how Europeans think about time.
I was just at events for the Barcelona Time Use initiative time use week 2021 and the panel on changing DST in Europe was very interesting
and I thought some of you might want to take a look. It is free to sign up and you can access recordings of all the events including the one on time zones/DST.
Description and link below.
Thanks for the pointer. I don't see recordings there yet but I assume they'll be published in due course
Recordings are now available (after free registration). @dashdashado On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 1:30 PM Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 10/25/21 09:16, BASTIAN Michelle via tz wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I don't see recordings there yet but I assume they'll be published in due course.
If I had been there, my question would be "What will be the names of time zones in Europe if half of Europe sticks with standard time, the other half advances its clocks permanently, and the UK continues to switch back and forth?" For example, will "Central European Time" continue to mean UTC+1, or will it mean the time that Berlin observes even thought that becomes UTC+2; or will we come up with new names for the new time zone regime?
Naming may sound like a minor issue but whichever way it's decided, a lot of reprogramming will need to be done. You might be surprised by how much software out there assumes that "CET" means UTC+1 despite our recommendations not to rely on these abbreviations.
And it's not just software that will need reprogramming: the choice of names will affect how Europeans think about time.
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Arthur David Olson -
BASTIAN Michelle -
Paul Eggert