Time change redux

[Mendalla]

So, a private member's bill is now before the legislature here in Ontario to put Ontario permanently on DST. BC has done similar and, of course, Saskatchewan was the original "no time change" province.

Daylight saving time could become permanent in Ontario

Ontario could put an end to bi-annual clock changes and permanently adapt daylight saving time if a new private member's bill, which the government supports, passes.

toronto.ctvnews.ca

I actually did a poll here in 2018 on the subject. See link below for the results and the discussion. For fun, here's the same poll. Wonder if we'll get anything different?

Time change, yay or nay?

Okay, this has turned into a hot topic in Last Post, so it is time for a showdown. There are actually more than two options since if we stop changing time, we could choose to stay on either Standard or Daylight Time. Votes are public and cannot be changed, so choose well. You have 1 week to...

www.wondercafe2.ca

 

[Redbaron]

I didn't mind DST when it ran from April to October. It sort of made sense then. However, this foolishness goes on too long. (Thank you, George Dubya...) and whatever benefits in saving coal it may have had years ago are largely irrelevant now.

 

[Luce NDs]

Save time ... put the entire thing in a bottle!

Add a bottom note ... subtitles!

 

[ninj]

I'd rather have a bit of extra light at the end of the day rather than the beginning. It's dark in the morning anyway. When the sun sets at 5pm, another hour would be nice.

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

It think I remember that the EU is considering giving up DST.

 

[Luce NDs]

It think I remember that the EU is considering giving up DST.

Yet in terms of Twain's comments on east and west ... Europe is way off from even NFLD Time! They just won't collide ... or collude ...

 

[mgagnonlv]

I personally would prefer standard time all year round. A few reasons

1. As a question of principle, I prefer the clock to be in sync with the sun instead of being ahead by one hour.

2. Currently, most people on fixed schedules (including me when I worked in the office) work way too early for daylight time. I know days are short in Winter, but I like to wake up in daylight, have time for breakfast and travel to work . And although I also like to have some daylight in the evening, I don't really mind the dusk.
With our current sunlight, a good work schedule would require starting work at 9:00 or 9:30 a.m., instead of 8:30 as it is currently.

If we were to keep the current alternance, the best would be to use daylight savings time only from early or mid-April (Easter weekend perhaps?) until Labour Day. In both cases, the time change would not be so bad (especially in Spring) because it would occur when people would still wake up with daylight.