It's that time of year...

[Mendalla]

No, not Halloween. Time to change clocks. Well, maybe change the clocks. It all depends where you live now and it is, to be honest, getting messy. I mean here in Ontario, the part that is Eastern Time still changes but the northwest, which is in Central, is going to follow Manitoba and stay on Central Daylight Time year-round. And there's a region in northern Quebec hat is staying on Daylight Time year-round but the rest of the province is changing. And ... yeah. Gack. Here's a summary of the situation going into this weekend from the National Post.

Map reveals which provinces and territories are changing their clocks this year

Here's a breakdown of which jurisdictions are doing what with their time zones next month, as many put an end to seasonal time changes.

nationalpost.com

 

[ninj]

 

[Jaebius]

Yeah... We don't go in for that nonsense here in Korea

 

[Mendalla]

Yeah... We don't go in for that nonsense here in Korea

Nor does China. China doesn't even bother with time zones. The whole country runs on Beijing time. Which creates its own set of problems. Consider trying to run all of Canada on Eastern time.

 

[Jaebius]

Nor does China. China doesn't even bother with time zones. The whole country runs on Beijing time. Which creates its own set of problems. Consider trying to run all of Canada on Eastern time.

All of Korea's on KST. Seems to work well

 

[Mendalla]

All of Korea's on KST. Seems to work well

Korea isn't that wide from East to West though, though. The average 300km East to West width (yes, I checked) is around the distance between London and Peterborough in Ontario. I've driven that in half a day or less. So a single time zone is exactly how Korea should be run.

The problem in countries like China, Canada, and the US is that we are so wide from East to West, there is significant difference between when the sun rises on the East side of the country vs. the West. There's a reason Vancouver is 4 hours behind Halifax, in other words. Ditto the 3 hours difference between NY and LA in the US. Dealing with that distance without time zones involves staggering work hours and things like that, which results in basically the same thing expressed in a different way.

 

[Jaebius]

Korea isn't that wide from East to West though, though. The average 300km East to West width (yes, I checked) is around the distance between London and Peterborough in Ontario. I've driven that in half a day or less. So a single time zone is exactly how Korea should be run.

The problem in countries like China, Canada, and the US is that we are so wide from East to West, there is significant difference between when the sun rises on the East side of the country vs. the West. There's a reason Vancouver is 4 hours behind Halifax, in other words. Ditto the 3 hours difference between NY and LA in the US. Dealing with that distance without time zones involves staggering work hours and things like that, which results in basically the same thing expressed in a different way.

 

[Luce NDs]

If we run on eternal time (god's?) there would be night people and Dais people and always someone in a cycling of black and white ... but then some can't see it no matter what!

It is like ignorance ... they just wouldn't get me ... because they didn't even glance ...

 

[jimkenney12]

Western Saskatchewan has been on permanent MDT and eastern Saskatchewan on CST for decades.

 

[Mendalla]

Western Saskatchewan has been on permanent MDT and eastern Saskatchewan on CST for decades.

Yeah, SK was kind of the poster child for getting rid of the time change, eh. Probably should have just made themselves their own time zone (SK Time similar to Alberta's "Alberta Time"). I'm actually missing daylight time. The later sunset was actually good for me in that I had time before dark to do my walks after work for longer than I would on Standard Time.

 

[GordW]

Western Saskatchewan has been on permanent MDT and eastern Saskatchewan on CST for decades.

Acknowledging of course that MDT andCST are the same thing. SO the new "Alberta TIme" is merely CST just like "Saskatchewan Time" is. And BC is now permanently on MST (or PDT if you prefer). THe week after the time change (or lack thereof) I listened to an interview that pointed out we would likely be helthier to get back to guiding time and activity by sunrise -- whatever the clock on the wall might say

 

[Mendalla]

we would likely be helthier to get back to guiding time and activity by sunrise -- whatever the clock on the wall might say

As I pointed out earlier, that's how China does it. The whole country runs on Beijing time with no daylight savings time and then they adjust work hours based on sun time. It would be hard for Canadians to get used to, though, I think. Having people in Halifax getting up at seven and people in Vancouver getting up at eleven or something like that would be as confusing as what we have now, I suspect. And there would be the inevitable battle over which time zone to use (Central would make the most sense, I think but I would have to do some checking of sun times using CST to see).