• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Just pick standard time FFS. If you want to wake up earlier just do it, don’t drag everyone with you.

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      18 hours ago

      We already did.

      Ontario will do it as soon as New York does it who will do it as soon as Quebec does it who will do it as soon as Ontario does it.

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      This actually makes sense. Northwestern Ontario is already in the Central time zone, so failing to follow Manitoba would have left northwestern Ontario a hour behind both Manitoba (in the winter months) and the rest of Ontario (all year round). Not ideal.

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        It would also make sense to abolish the time change entirely. Its the half assedness that bothers me

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        As a Saskatchewan resident who does not understand the idocracy of DST I remember looking things up, because I thought it would need to take Ontario to change to get the rest of Canada to follow the Yukon Territory to stop this and be more reasonable like Saskatchewan. My readings found that Ontario would not do it until New York did it and New York was not going to do it until Ontario did it.

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          Which if anything just means it’s a bunch of day trading losers who don’t want an hour difference between the TSX and NYSE.

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            Fortunately US states are slowly doing it too, of course that sadly means we are stuck waiting for NY to do it.

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    Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It was tried before in the UK (1968-71), the USA (1973-74), Russia (2011-14) and Chile (2015). In each case, it was popular at first because it meant no more changing the clocks twice a year, but quickly became very unpopular because of early-morning traffic fatalities, children waiting for buses in pitch darkness, and general seasonal depression, made worse from it staying dark until late in the morning in winter.

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      What we really need is to realign the time zones Toronto should be on Atlantic time and Sault West should be on Eastern time (for Ontario)

      At present for example it gets dark too early and the sun comes out too early in Toronto.