Peter Dunne says New Zealand shouldn't get rid of daylight savings, after the European Parliament voted to scrap it.
National governments in the European Union now have to "give their assent" to the proposed change , The Guardian reports.
Mr Dunne, a former Internal Affairs Minister told TVNZ1's Breakfast that what countries overseas decide to do is "completely irrelevant" to New Zealand.
"You’ve got 27 countries that have made that call, they’ve got different time zones to start with, I think we are in a far different position here."
Mr says the arguement to scrap it here is weak.
"People don’t like the disruption that it causes for an hour every six months, there are other bizarre reasons, it always was alledged it used to fade the curtains or the animals on the farm didn’t adjust to it very well.
"A lot of it is just a reaction against change… …people just really like those long summer evenings."
He says most opinion polls on the topic show 80 per cent or more support for daylight savings.
"While we all lament the fact that daylight saving goes, in the next few days we get used to it and then we look forward to it returning at the end of the year."
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