Liberal MP says it’s time to stop the clock on daylight time
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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.
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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.
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I love DST. It lets me identify clueless whiners so quickly. If they whine about DST I have no time for someone because it’s literally the easiest thing in the world.
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Start work earlier
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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.
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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
Lol you actually want to be able to enjoy a sunset? Ridiculous! Work harder!
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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.
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I love DST. It lets me identify clueless whiners so quickly. If they whine about DST I have no time for someone because it’s literally the easiest thing in the world.
The time switch itself isn’t that terrible. But sunset before 5pm can fuck right off.
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Start work earlier
Like most people have a choice…
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Start work earlier
Who the fuck wants to go to bed earlier?
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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.
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Move to a place where the sun doesn’t change so much with the seasons.
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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.
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Move to a place where the sun doesn’t change so much with the seasons.
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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
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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.
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Ontario has a law on the books that will trigger once NY and QC get their shit together
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”
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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.
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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.
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Move to a place where the sun doesn’t change so much with the seasons.
In fairness, this isn’t possible in Canada. They don’t have a Hawaii or Puerto Rico
