Residents of #canada, would you be in favour of your province or territory abolishing annual clock changes and moving to a consistent, year round time?

I live in Saskatchewan, so I already don't change my clocks at all and I can say with certainty that it is better this way! Please stop changing your clocks!

I found out that Saskatchewan is on permanent Daylight time (more evening sun) which is, by most studies, the 'worse' option. However, it is still better than changing the clocks and once you stop the flip-flop, it is so much better.

I'm in BC and I'm glad we're not doing the changes again. That said, I do wish we stuck with standard time instead, but I'll get used to it.

Yes. In Alberta, especially in the central/northern region, the time change doesn't serve any particular purpose. Our daylight hours are very long in the summer and very short in the winter, so changing the specific time the sun rises and sets hardly makes a difference.

Personally I prefer standard time over DST, and I think a lot of people here share that opinion. We probably would have switched over years ago if our government had any shred of competence.

@chimpchomp @canada I fully support year round DST.

There is a week every year (maybe 2 don’t remember the study too well) that there is an increase of car accidents and heart attacks when the clocks fall back (or spring forward again don’t remember the study too well). I am glad I live in Saskatchewan where our livestock wouldn’t understand why they are being fed at different times!

As I understand it, when the time zones and time changing was being developed Saskatchewan said no time change “because the cows wouldn’t understand why they were being fed at different times.” So all I can say is here to the livestock!

But seriously different parts of the world and parts of Canada can do without time changes, I understand why Canada likes time zones but time changes are silly. We should really all just follow Europe, I think they all follow one time zone, and all get into GMT and adjust our lives to that. If all the world was one time zone could you imagine how much easier it would be to schedule meetings and the such. Yes I understand I it would be confusing why 9 to 5 would be different, 15:00 to 23:00 (in Saskatchewan). As I understand it China has one time zone as well, of course there are plenty of small counties that only fall into one time zone.

Yes. Please keep it at standard time. Keep noon at noon.

I support ending seasonal time changes. There is considerable data showing that these changes cause health issues and more workplace injuries. However, staying on daylight saving time isn't the right choice. Every jurisdiction that has tried this has been compelled to revert to seasonal adjustments. The best option is Standard Time, as it aligns most closely with solar time, which our bodies naturally follow.

Why is there no discussion on splitting the difference and changing time zones by half an hour? If Newfoundland can survive being half an hour off from its neighbors there shouldn't be any arguments against it.

Alberta here. Fuck yes! The premise of DST is stupid. Changing twice a year is more stupider.

Abolish it forever and move to standard time.

I don't care which. Pick one and stop changing the clocks.

Fully support ditching the switch.

In BC, we've switched to permanent PDT. But why are we still calling it pacific time? It's obviously Mountain Time.

Absolutely. But they need to do it right. Eby's "permanent" change to Daylight Savings Time will most likely get rescinded in a year or two just like it has everywhere else it has been tried because it doesn't work. That hour on winter mornings is needed far, far more than the hour in the evening in the summer. He would have been much better to have not changed the time on March 8th and just left it alone.

Abolish and use standard time. BTW, standard time doesn't give an extra hour of sunlight in the morning, it's equal. DST gives an extra sunlight hour in the evening.

Stop changing the clocks. I don't care which permanent time we pick, just make it permanent.

Get rid of time change. Have a referemdum for Standard or Daylight, then stick to it.

Yes. Dump DST, its well overdue.

Yes, as long as they go back to the standard for time zones.

My region has not.

For sure. But everyone should change. Otherwise, it's a constant question of who's on what time.

I absolutely want to get rid of changing clocks every year, which is nice because BC is doing just that

Unfortunately I think BC is going permanent Daylight savings, where I would prefer permanent Standard. It's much nicer to wake up to daylight in the morning, and I don't particularly care for doing outdoor activities at 10-11pm.

No. The time changes show us how time is a construct and how we as a society can make collective decisions that alter our reality.

All of the alternatives to our current system have their own problems, there is no perfect solution. Design is about finding a compromise that works the least ungood and I think the time change is that.

My recently ruined sleep schedule thinks this sounds good. Personally I'd go for standard time cause waking up to darkness is really depressing for me.

Jesus, people are fucking obsessed with this.

I'd rather Ontario extend Atlantic time to Sudbury.

Quebec here, I am still a bit hesitant and nuanced about this, the reason being that our winters are quite dark and really rough on our bodies, and I wonder how whatever amount of sunlight we receive would be impacted, and to our circadian rhythms.

Personally I prefer one hour sunlight in the evening, but that’s me, and I am not getting up early (7-8am).

I would rely on actual scientists versed in the matter here.

I want global coordination on either 0 or whatever time changes done simultaneously.

Im in favor of not having fascism anywhere in the world. Who cares about time change when there is an active conspiracy to instill fascism in all governments worldwide.

I am in favour. Don't care which one we adopt I just disagree with changing clocks all the time.

I am a little excited to not have to change our clocks back come November. I know experts say we should have stayed on Standard time and I probably would have preferred that, but I don't think it's going to make more of a difference than the torture of changing our clocks and fucking up our sleep twice a year. We can work around excess daylight, we can't work around screwing up the timing of our body processes. It would be foolish of the other provinces to not follow suit.

If you’re interested, I can provide a research bibliography.

yes, we should just be on winter time year round

I'm from Saskatchewan. Literally nothing would change for me.

As long as its standard time.

Ontario already has legislation for this, but it's tied to I think New York and Quebec doing the same

Apparently I'm the only person in the country who doesn't find the seasonal time changing to be problematic.

I like having the extra sunshine hours in the summer evenings, and having sunrise come a bit sooner in the winter. And I've never personally experienced any dramatically negative effects on the days when the time changes.

No. Not at all. The country is too large for that. Does no-one care about the effect of planetary movements anymore? An hour here or there does not effect circadian rhythms. Night-shifts do.

What I want goes the opposite way, but it'd require some serious infrastructure-updates, 1st:

I want days to begin either at solar-dusk or at solar-midnight,

& night & day each to be divided into 12 "hours",

& people to begin anchoring to the natural cycles of night & day, instead of pretending that living-in-boxes divorced-from-nature is somehow our best choice!

It'd take some getting-used-to, but with microcontroller-clocks, for doing the calculations, it's work beautifully.

Midday becomes locked to the sun.

Midnight becomes locked to the sun being at nadir.

Dawn means something, so does dusk.

Etc.

Mechanismists would hate it, of course, but all the creatures of Nature, whom we've been holocausting, would probably benefit.

( this also requires accepting the biological fact in "WHEN: The Science of Perfect Timing", by Pink,

that there are early-morning people, there are late-morning people, there are owls ( which covers nearly everybody else ), & what that-book missed, is that there also are chaos-"cycle" people, whose biology isn't regular.

Having the late-morning people & the owls NOT have to be at work early, would reduce the deaths-on-the-roads.

& having each day's cycle be mere-minutes different from the last, instead of the arbitrary 1h-jump in spring/fall, would remove the sudden-jump-in-deaths on the roads, then, too, obviously )

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Hate the time changes as much as anybody else, get rid of them, but only if we get Standard Time from it and do away with DST entirely.

When we had the vote in Alberta to change to permanent Daylight Savings Time, I voted against the idea. I understand that it's better than changing the clocks at all, but it makes no sense to me whatsoever to basically change our timezone and stick with Daylight Savings permanently when we should be getting rid of it entirely.

I'd rather keep the flip-flop so that the option to do away with DST entirely remains on the table in the future. In my mind, it's a lot more likely that another vote appears to get rid of the flip-flop with going to Standard Time as an option than it is for us to get rid of the flip-flop and have a vote getting rid of permanent DST in favour of Standard Time.