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How likely is the EU removing DST to pressure the US into considering the same? Any chance at all?

"Pressure"? Probably not. If anyone was able to pressure anyone else, they would have managed to align the switchover dates (they're off by a week, making for two quite amusing weeks a year where everybody is late or early for transatlantic meetings). But doing it and proving it works well (provided that it does) would be valuable arguments in favour of its abolition elsewhere.

Used to be a week. Now it's a lot more, thanks to some bright sparks during the second Bush administration thinking they could score some quick points by extending summer time to "reduce energy usage"...

None. Why should it?

Possibly because the followup studies might show that it is better for people's wellbeing and for the economy to do away with this nonsense. There are regular articles going around saying that traffic accidents increase and productivity decreases in the weeks following a clock change. If we do away with it, we should see actual, measurable improvements in road deaths at least.

> Possibly because the followup studies might show that it is better for people's wellbeing and for the economy to do away with this nonsense.

To be fair, the US isn't exactly known for listening to studies that demonstrate improvements in people's wellbeing (cf health care, gun control, pollution control, etc.)

Unlikely but keep in mind that two states (Hawaii and Arizona) don't use DST. So it isn't outside the world of possibility.

Arizona is actually way cooler than this. (Or more confusing, if you like.) Differences in how some Native American territories chose to respect DST or not, this is Arizona's DST map: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html

Traveling in a straight line you can go back and forth in time repeatedly!

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