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That's the world we're living in now. We can barely get governments to consider stopping doing big stupid things like daylight savings time, let alone set any grand expensive projects in motion.
It's horrible. None of the great projects governents have set up in the past like railway systems or sewers would be made in today's political climate.
In part because the population dose not agree on doing so.
Its been discussed in parliment several times over the decades. Each time the MPs realise voting to end it is voting for school children walking home in the dark through most of winter. So reject it.
ok. Can you imagine any government in the g20 doing something on the scale of implementing daylight savings today?
Nope def not. I was not disagreeing with your point. Just the stupidity of daylight savings. As an old fart I've watched the subject come up every time. Folks rapidly realise it ain't so stupid when they realise the real reason we still do it.
Its just one of those things that makes me grin. Farmers claim cities need it urbanites think its for farmers. Yet it has always been about their kids not walking home at 3pm in the dark. Then a decade or so later the MPs forget about it and have another debate.
We have all grown so used to it we only remember the 2 annoying days a year .