Aren't there more important problems to ignore?
In 2017, there was no other topic in the European Economic Community, which by then had long ceased to be called that, but which should make us aware of what the EU is really about: namely trade agreements worth billions and sleeve-rubbing, and not about the people who live on the old continent. However, the argument that in the course of equal treatment all continents are equal and that their age is irrelevant has nothing to do with the subject of this article.
It is about the time change, which then became the focus of discussion in 2018, only to be postponed to the following year. Then people would stick it out for the next year - and now it's 2021 and still nothing has happened.
Even serious reporters from established editorial offices no longer manage to wipe away the failures of the EU Council Presidency without satire.
So during the night, the clocks will be changed again. Whether forward or backward, the 500 million or so citizens can then check on their smartphones with which they voted against saving coal years ago.
Because - no joke - daylight saving time was not about upsetting the biorhythms of people and pets, but about saving fossil fuels, which are needed more in summer (that's the shifted time) than in winter, for which better use of energy might have made more sense.
The division into seven and five months instead of six and six (to recalculate: there are twelve months in a year), which is incomprehensible to us stupid folk, was also anticipatory of climate change back in 1977, when the word did not yet exist. For the seasons are shifting: the ignored seasons of spring and autumn - which could perhaps have been taken into account with at least a half-hour time shift - are shortening, depending on how they are defined (this is mainly done by the clothing industry by telling us via app when transitional jackets may be worn or bought).
From a meteorological point of view, the actual CET must therefore be shorter and the eponymous summer time correspondingly longer. After all, it is not the sun that is responsible for global warming; it is still man who decides when it is warm enough not to heat with coal, which caused the whole mess in the first place.
On average, there are still three clocks in every household in Germany that have to be changed manually. However, this number is not included in the calculations for the sense and efficiency of the basic measure any more than the adjustment of the sleep cycle, the higher susceptibility to acne, the 27 % increase in traffic accidents or the illness of pets, especially large dogs, because mistresses and masters do not know that these creatures cannot change over.
PLEASE - this is not a joke: walk your dog at the same times and feed it at the same time WITHOUT considering the changed clocks. Large dogs in particular are at risk of gastric torsion, which can be fatal for the animal!
So it's only a matter of time....
Perhaps during the next EU Council Presidency, which fortunately changes annually so that such decisions can be planned, we will think again about what is the point of prescribing that sunsets can only be enjoyed on the basis of the time displayed, of making timetables unnecessarily complicated or of expecting people to accept something they neither want nor want to have anything to do with. After all, the coal phase-out cannot be the reason to insist on maintaining a coal-saving regulation whose benefits have never been established.