On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 12:39 PM Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > On 03/09/2021 18:37, Chris Angelico wrote: > > >>>> Without DST the schools opened in the dark so all the kids > >>>> had to travel to school in the dark and the number of > >>>> traffic accidents while crossing roads jumped. > > > > Are you saying that you had DST in winter, or that, when summer *and* > > DST came into effect, there was more light at dawn? Because a *lot* of > > people confuse summer and DST, and credit DST with the natural effects > > of the season change. > > OK, I see the confusion. What I should point out was that the > experiment involved us staying on DST and not reverting to UTC > in the winter - that unified us with most of the EU apparently... > > So although I'm saying DST it was really the non-reversion from > DST to UTC that caused problems. Arguably, if we just stayed on > UTC and didn't have DST at all there would be no issue - except > we'd be an hour out of sync with the EU. (Post Brexit that may > not be seen as a problem!! :-)
Oh, I see what you mean. When I complain about DST, I'm complaining about the repeated changes of UTC offset. Whether you either stay on UTC+0 or stay on UTC+1, it's basically the same, doesn't make a lot of difference. "Abolishing DST" and "staying on summer time permanently" are effectively the same. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
