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Actually “only” Germany voted back then. Like 3.79% of Germans voted. So that comes out to ~3.18M of 4.6M votes cast by Germans.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_18_...

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A vote was held and a conclusion reached. Voting is not mandatory, but generally the outcome of a vote should be followed.

I voted to permanently abolish daylight saving time/summer time and am very unhappy that it isn't gone already.

So much confusion about this. There was never a "vote" about it. It was more like a poll, which wasn't advertised across the EU, and on top of it was severely plagued by server failures. To have a binding vote:

- it needs to be properly announced to all eligible voters

- be declared as binding, you can't tell people it isn't a vote and later on declare it is

- the platform for voting needs to work

Who cares? On 26 March 2019 the European Parliament voted 410 to 192 in favor of dropping the DST requirement in the EU by 2021.

Nothing happend. All talk, no action, as I wrote above.

Unfortunately, they left open what happens after dropping DST. If they had clearly written that the EU would return to the standard time, it would have been active back then.

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