Summary
- B.C. will adopt permanent, year-round daylight saving time after clocks shift forward an hour on Sunday, March 8, 2026
- People and businesses will have eight months to prepare for the elimination of the next time change, previously scheduled for Nov. 1, 2026
- Eliminating twice-yearly time changes reduces disruptions for families, simplifies scheduling and provides an extra hour of evening light during the winter months
13 Comments
ageedizzle@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 173d
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 173d
Hell yeah! Congrats B.C.! I hope the other provinces follow!
sveltecider@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 173d
Wish this could magically happen one day in ONtario.
AffineConnection@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 173d
Adopting permanent daylight time instead of permanent standard time is completely backwards.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 173d
Is it? Why? Daylight time was already a larger portion of the year.
Individual_Orchid@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 173d
It's less natural for the body from what I recall reading (I do not recall the source, it was years ago.)
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 173d
Nothing is natural about how we wake and go to sleep these days, I'm not sure why that would matter.
Today for example, where I live in BC (which is essentially along the border) sunrise was at 6:51am (with it starting to get light even before that) and sunset will be 5:59pm (with it still being light a bit later than that of course)
If we spring ahead to the new system, it would mean sunrise would have been at 7:51am, with sunset at 6:59pm.
When I got up this morning at quarter to 7am to my alarm beeping, even though sunrise was just about to occur, the first thing I did was turn on my bedroom light so that I could see. My blinds were closed, so I could not tell if it was light or dark outside.
When I get home, I will turn on my house and room lights for multiple hours before I go to bed tonight.
Dec 21st would have been sunrise from essentially 9am to 5pm, instead of 8am to 4pm. Either way I'm waking up in the dark, and going to bed in the dark.
In the deepest parts of summer, it is light before I wake up and is just barely reaching darkness before I go to bed most nights. Under standard time it would actually be dark before I go to bed... maybe that's the benefit?
non_burglar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 173d
Less natural for the body? I don't understand... The amount of daylight available remains the same.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 173d
it's all pretty pointless unless the whole continent agrees to change.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 173d
They should have gone with regular time. This will have negative impacts on the health of people, especially children in school.
And to all of those that say time is subjective, I'll believe you what school starts at 10am.
ellisk@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 173d
Do you think kids in Thunder Bay are worse off than Montreal because of the time zone relative toe sunrise? They're both on EST, but sunrise is about an hour off between the two of them. Or is it about kids going to school in the dark, because I have bad news for you regarding most of Canada...
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 171d
The science says they are. Unless school start time is staggered to compensate.
ellisk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 170d
Citation needed for comparisons within a single time zone.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 173d
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 171d
Wow, what a scientifically sound argument.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 171d