Yukon and Saskatchewan already don't change their clocks.

I work in BC and Yukon and I always have to check if we are on the same time or and hour difference because I can never remember.

Going forward BC and Yukon will always be on the same time.

Ontario also has this law in place just waiting for Quebec and New York to make the move too.

Please yes.

Holy crap YES!!!

Trump changing space-time

We are indeed living in interesting times…

Servers that don't update = minor Y2K. But only for small websites/businesses/servers and that won't affect anything important. Who doesn't update their server for months, knowing this change is coming, right?

It should be fun!

...or is it about an hour from damn time? I can never remember.

My cats also get confused, and then they get pushy about it.

As a sysadmin or programmer its a nightmare.

And not like it makes a damn difference anyways. It’s gonna be extra dark outside regardless of if we fuck with everyone’s schedule or not. One hour doesn’t make a significant difference in the amount of light we get in a day when we still just work for 8-9 hours of the day inside of a building.

Daylight Savings Time, or Summer Time, is in use for 9 months of the year, and is thus the de facto standard. Daylight Wasting Time, or Winter Time, is only in use for 3 months of the year, which makes it the exception.

I don't give a flying fuck if we stay on DST or ST, just stop the seasonal switches. High noon is already inaccurate the further you move from the "center" of a timezone.

To be fair, high noon is rarely 12:00 even without DST. West Saskatchewan and the Yukon have quite a big mismatch with solar time. The idea behind Sandford Fleming's innovation was that some mismatch is acceptable if it means you don't get a different time zone in every stop along the railway.

Personally, I think this system is not really the best for the modern globalized age. I would prefer something like Swatch Internet Time or even just using UTC exclusively everywhere. It's just a social construct that the sun rises at what we label with numbers between 5 and 9 (usually), and we start working at what's labelled 9. You could just as easily (more easily in my opinion) shift those labels depending on geography, instead of using the same labels and deciding on an offset. But it will never happen because of inertia. Look how difficult it is to get rid of a dumb idea like the biannual clock shift (not to say DST) because of inertia.

School hours could change. And if you're far north enough, standard or daylight ain't gonna matter, there will be times when kids are walking in the dark.

You’re either walking to or from school in the dark in more northern places, it’s an irrelevant argument.

Shortest day of the year in my city is only 8 hours long.

Schools can choose to start later in the day if they find it helpful, without needing everyone else to change their clocks and schedules too

BC winter is dark and gloomy in the morning and dark again by 3:30. So this won't mean much for us, other than some actually usable daylight

That's caused (at least in part) by assigning timezones according to politics rather than longitude. Some places have gotten really skewed.

Anyway, most of us just want the government to pick one thing and stick with it. We don't care whether they pick DST, ST, or create a new half-hour timezone to split the difference so long as the changing back and forth stops.

The main reason it still exists is not a good one.

People are used to it happening and are scared of change.

I can assure you kids are going to school in the dark when we're on standard time. I was actually in grade school when the US stayed on DST year round for a hot minute in the 70s. It was no big deal