Permanent Daylight Savings Time is the worst possible solution, so that is probably what they will go with.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Either way. I don't care. Just stop fucking with the time.
" ok, first cut the top off your blanket, sew it on to the bottom of your blanket.
Don't you love your new longer blanket?"
-Daylight savings advocates, probably.
I don't care about the time change but personally I prefer standard time.
I don't want to hear about a DST bill if it's a private member's bill from a back-bencher, but I'll bite.
[reads article]
Ugh.
Ending DST is such an easy and effortless political win that I don't know why it hasn't been done yet.
BC’s gov said they want to keep it in sync with the US even though Saskatchewan, Arizona and the Yukon do not perform the clock switch anymore.
BC cleaving to foreign direction is just so spineless; even more now when it's America making stupid decisions that affect BC.
Mr Eby's own fucking province runs on two different time zones and they seem to figure it out even when there's no border to remind people to turn the clocks ahead.
I dont care which we do. Just fucking pick one.
I prefer the time zone where the sun comes up later and sets later...
Most of us arent farmers anymore. We dont need sunrise at 5am
Would prefer to have a bit of light after work
Same. In summetime BC we have 4:30am with what seems like full daylight. And then winter its dark at 3:30 pm. The time shift is messed up, if we lose Daylight time we'd have 3:30am summer mornings. We need a 2 hour shift to all months maybe
Lol you actually want to be able to enjoy a sunset? Ridiculous! Work harder!
Exactly. Just pick one and stick with it.
Preferably the one where we gain an hour, not the one where we're robbed of an hour.
we have been having a variant of this headline appear ubiquitously every six months for decades.
we all know it’s a dumb idea, and we all agree that the science and data prove it, so why do we still have it?
well - because Ontario says we can’t change if New York doesn’t, and New York says we can’t change if Ontario doesn’t. it’s like a big unnecessary game of chrono-chicken. one of these regions needs to just go plowing straight ahead. the loser will absolutely end up copying the winner.
ps - Chrono Chicken would be an awesome band name.
Did New York say that? I thought Ontario and Quebec had passed bills that would end it as soon as NY also did it.
passing bills that say we WILL do it, really doesn’t mean anything. it’s just political posturing.
basically, this is the exact same as what i was saying : we won’t do it unless the other guy guys do it.
Why doesn't it mean anything?
It literally means that if NY ends DST, we will follow suit to match them. It doesn't do anything until then, if that's what you mean, but it still has actual meaning beyond political posturing.
It's also not what you said. You said NY had already committed to doing it (which they haven't) if Ontario did it too. I can't find anything about Quebec passing a similar bill, so I may have been mistaken about that.
Ontario has a law on the books that will trigger once NY and QC get their shit together
This. You can look up the texts and documents from Parliament. We are waiting on the United States
they sure do, but it’s really not the same as actually just doing instead of saying “we will do it if the other guy does it”
Oh it did not even occur to me that it’s that time of the year again. The only times that this time change stuff has effected me in my adult life was one fall, I showed up to class an hour early once or I went to do some government work an hour early. I live in Saskatchewan and the showing up to class an hour early was because my phone decided I was not in Saskatchewan, after that mix up I have stayed on top of making sure my electronics do not believe I follow that silliness. Years later while I was working for Statistics Canada the stupid software had no idea how to handle Saskatchewan not following that silliness so I showed up to someones home and hour early.
Ya, I don't know why it took so many years for Sasktel not to change the time in a non-DST province.
I haven't been experienced it in a while, so I assume they've got it fixed.
The university class would have been in the late 2000’s the Stats Canada computer would have been in the late 2010’s.
Omg yes. 100000000000 times yes. I don't care which we keep (though I'd prefer the summer time if I had to choose, but I'll take any at this point).
Just don't do permanent DST. It's bad for our health, it's bad for kids, and it doesn't make sense.
Just do proper solar time.
The 24 hour clock that zeros at midnight is entirely artificial. How can numbers we made up be bad for your health?
We're talking about offsetting human activity with sunrise and sunset, right? And we do this by changing the clocks everywhere in a time zone twice a year such that the rule "The business opens at 9 AM and closes at 5 PM" remains the same, but how far those events are from local solar noon sloshes back and forth a bit.
So, hold the clocks still, pick what times it is healthy for school to start and end, and then start and end school at those times. 8 to 3? 7 to 2? 9 to 4? Who gives a shit what the numbers actually are?
Moving the clocks back and forth gives everyone everywhere jet lag twice a year, which isn't good for anyone's health.
Times can be adjusted. The problem isn't the time at which things happen, it's that it cycles back and forth,
It's never been proper solar time from the beginning. The timezone boundaries are distorted to align with political boundaries, which messes up any alignment with solar time.
No thanks. I’m headed to work in the dark regardless if it’s DST or Standard. Let me at least see the sun on my way home.
Oh, well, I mean, study after study has shown permanent daylight time is terrible for childrens' development, but if it's convenient for you I guess we should lol
Not sure where they did this study, but around here, kids that have to be at school for 8:00 are going in during the dark regardless of DST or not. Plus, they already delayed the switch by nearly a month “for the children” so they are not out in the scary dark for Halloween. So which is it?
On the solstice sure, but you still increase the number of days per year when that happens.
This is the big problem government needs to deal with right now?