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DST in Europe makes no sense anyway, because of political reason countries as far away as Spain and Poland use the same time zone (CEST).

So today daylight in Warsaw was 6:36-16:01, and in Madrid it's 7:47-18:08.

If people really cared about daylight saving - they should use the correct timezone in the first place and then worry about changing time.

Yes, Spain is in the "wrong" time zone geographically and should really go back an hour relative to CEST. This would put it in the same time zone as Portugal, Britain, Ireland and Morocco.

Personally, here in the UK I'd like to see daylight saving time abolished, but we should stay permanently in summer time. In winter the sun is usually up well before I am, but in the evening it gets dark far too early.

here in the UK I'd like to see daylight saving time abolished, but we should stay permanently in summer time

We tried that for a couple of years at the start of the 1970's... Clearly it didn't last.

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