I live in Saskatchewan, so I already don't change my clocks at all and I can say with certainty that it is better this way! Please stop changing your clocks!
I found out that Saskatchewan is on permanent Daylight time (more evening sun) which is, by most studies, the 'worse' option. However, it is still better than changing the clocks and once you stop the flip-flop, it is so much better.
I'm in BC and I'm glad we're not doing the changes again. That said, I do wish we stuck with standard time instead, but I'll get used to it.
Yes. In Alberta, especially in the central/northern region, the time change doesn't serve any particular purpose. Our daylight hours are very long in the summer and very short in the winter, so changing the specific time the sun rises and sets hardly makes a difference.
Personally I prefer standard time over DST, and I think a lot of people here share that opinion. We probably would have switched over years ago if our government had any shred of competence.
@chimpchomp @canada I fully support year round DST.
There is a week every year (maybe 2 don’t remember the study too well) that there is an increase of car accidents and heart attacks when the clocks fall back (or spring forward again don’t remember the study too well). I am glad I live in Saskatchewan where our livestock wouldn’t understand why they are being fed at different times!
As I understand it, when the time zones and time changing was being developed Saskatchewan said no time change “because the cows wouldn’t understand why they were being fed at different times.” So all I can say is here to the livestock!
But seriously different parts of the world and parts of Canada can do without time changes, I understand why Canada likes time zones but time changes are silly. We should really all just follow Europe, I think they all follow one time zone, and all get into GMT and adjust our lives to that. If all the world was one time zone could you imagine how much easier it would be to schedule meetings and the such. Yes I understand I it would be confusing why 9 to 5 would be different, 15:00 to 23:00 (in Saskatchewan). As I understand it China has one time zone as well, of course there are plenty of small counties that only fall into one time zone.
Yes. Please keep it at standard time. Keep noon at noon.
Why is there no discussion on splitting the difference and changing time zones by half an hour? If Newfoundland can survive being half an hour off from its neighbors there shouldn't be any arguments against it.
Alberta here. Fuck yes! The premise of DST is stupid. Changing twice a year is more stupider.
Abolish it forever and move to standard time.
I don't care which. Pick one and stop changing the clocks.
Fully support ditching the switch.
In BC, we've switched to permanent PDT. But why are we still calling it pacific time? It's obviously Mountain Time.
I support ending seasonal time changes. There is considerable data showing that these changes cause health issues and more workplace injuries. However, staying on daylight saving time isn't the right choice. Every jurisdiction that has tried this has been compelled to revert to seasonal adjustments. The best option is Standard Time, as it aligns most closely with solar time, which our bodies naturally follow.
Abolish and use standard time. BTW, standard time doesn't give an extra hour of sunlight in the morning, it's equal. DST gives an extra sunlight hour in the evening.
Get rid of time change. Have a referemdum for Standard or Daylight, then stick to it.
Stop changing the clocks. I don't care which permanent time we pick, just make it permanent.
Yes. Dump DST, its well overdue.
I absolutely want to get rid of changing clocks every year, which is nice because BC is doing just that
Unfortunately I think BC is going permanent Daylight savings, where I would prefer permanent Standard. It's much nicer to wake up to daylight in the morning, and I don't particularly care for doing outdoor activities at 10-11pm.
I'd rather Ontario extend Atlantic time to Sudbury.
My recently ruined sleep schedule thinks this sounds good. Personally I'd go for standard time cause waking up to darkness is really depressing for me.
Absolutely. But they need to do it right. Eby's "permanent" change to Daylight Savings Time will most likely get rescinded in a year or two just like it has everywhere else it has been tried because it doesn't work. That hour on winter mornings is needed far, far more than the hour in the evening in the summer. He would have been much better to have not changed the time on March 8th and just left it alone.
Quebec here, I am still a bit hesitant and nuanced about this, the reason being that our winters are quite dark and really rough on our bodies, and I wonder how whatever amount of sunlight we receive would be impacted, and to our circadian rhythms.
Personally I prefer one hour sunlight in the evening, but that’s me, and I am not getting up early (7-8am).
I would rely on actual scientists versed in the matter here.
Yes, as long as they go back to the standard for time zones.
My region has not.
No. The time changes show us how time is a construct and how we as a society can make collective decisions that alter our reality.
All of the alternatives to our current system have their own problems, there is no perfect solution. Design is about finding a compromise that works the least ungood and I think the time change is that.
For sure. But everyone should change. Otherwise, it's a constant question of who's on what time.
Jesus, people are fucking obsessed with this.
Im in favor of not having fascism anywhere in the world. Who cares about time change when there is an active conspiracy to instill fascism in all governments worldwide.
If you’re interested, I can provide a research bibliography.
Ontario already has legislation for this, but it's tied to I think New York and Quebec doing the same
As long as its standard time.
I am a little excited to not have to change our clocks back come November. I know experts say we should have stayed on Standard time and I probably would have preferred that, but I don't think it's going to make more of a difference than the torture of changing our clocks and fucking up our sleep twice a year. We can work around excess daylight, we can't work around screwing up the timing of our body processes. It would be foolish of the other provinces to not follow suit.
yes, we should just be on winter time year round
I'm from Saskatchewan. Literally nothing would change for me.
I am in favour. Don't care which one we adopt I just disagree with changing clocks all the time.
No. Not at all. The country is too large for that. Does no-one care about the effect of planetary movements anymore? An hour here or there does not effect circadian rhythms. Night-shifts do.
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