[tz] Finland urges EU to stop daylight savings time

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Sun Oct 29 21:51:18 UTC 2017


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


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