On 2021-09-04 21:48:14 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2021-09-02 08:32:36 +0100, Alan Gauld via Python-list wrote: > > On 31/08/2021 22:32, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > If we could abolish DST world-wide, life would be far easier. All the > > > rest of it would be easy enough to handle. > > We tried that in the UK for 2 years back in the '70s and very > > quickly reverted to DST when they realized that the number > > of fatalities among young children going to school doubled > > during those two years. > > That makes no sense. With DST the clocks are changed in summer, and they > are set forward, so it's darker at the same time in the morning. > > Maybe you are talking about switching to DST for the whole year or just > moving to CET? That would have the effect of it being noticably darker > in the morning in winter.
Found it. Between 1968-02-18 and 1971-10-30 was continuously on
UTC+0100 (probably to be in the same timezone as Germany and France
(which didn't have DST at that time).
hp
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