Disc parking which can make a one-hour parking zone as short as thirty minutes, possibly resulting in an unjustified parking ticket. On March 31, 1979 the conference of ministers of transportation in the European Union decided that a European standard should only use designs with a single clock face. The standardized clock disc was introduced as federal law in Germany in November 1981, and similar designs were adopted in other European countries. From 1998 the old parking disc designs began to be abolished. France set the last date to 2007, while in Switzerland (not an EU member) the EU parking disc design
The Parking Garage The Parking Garage "The Parking Garage" is the 23rd episode of the situation comedy "Seinfeld". The episode was the sixth episode of the show's third season. It aired on October 30, 1991 on National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The episode was written by Larry David and was directed by Tom Cherones, and takes place entirely in a parking garage. The episode "The Parking Garage" has received overwhelmingly positive reviews with many critics calling it better than the previous episode "about nothing", "The Chinese Restaurant". It was ranked #33 on TV Guide's 1997 list of the 100 Greatest TV episodes of All