@canada 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?
If yes, what would you prefer: year round daylight savings time (an extra hour of sunlight in the evening) or standard time (an extra hour of sunlight in the morning)?
I am in favour. Don’t care which one we adopt I just disagree with changing clocks all the time.
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.
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.
Also Alberta, also yes.
Danielle Smith would be less able to break things while working on it, too.
Stop changing the clocks. I don’t care which permanent time we pick, just make it permanent.
Yes. Please keep it at standard time. Keep noon at noon.
In BC we are now on permanent daylight savings. Gives us a winter dark around 4:30 instead of 3:30
Instead of changing how the sun works maybe change how humans work. Instead of 9 to 5, how about 8 to 4 ?
I’m all for that.
Also in BC. We should have gone with permanent Standard time imo.
Same here. Wish they put it to referendum, no idea why they went with daylight savings.
Why would you want sunrise at 330 in the summer?
Why not? Wake up naturally with no alarm clock at like 6am ready to take on the day and feeling refreshed. Sunlight pouring through the windows as you drink your coffee and get showered.
I would rather have a ton of sunlight in the morning then late in the evening.
We get that already with 4:30am sun starting, no need for 3:30am
You can do the same with 430am sunlight though.
Why? You want 3;:30 sunrise starting? I prefer the 4:30am start, and daylight in the winter near end of day
Most people won’t even notice if they leave work at 5pm, will still be dark no matter what so why not have an extra hour of light in the morning instead? I much prefer standard.
In winter it is dark here in the morning too. Rainforest oveecaat cloud cover means its pretty bleak
You chose to be consistantly wrong ?
You probably don’t live near Vancouver. Otherwise you’d know Daylight time makea more sense
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.
Other than the poorly implemented experiment in the States, who else has reverted? Saskatchewan is (effectively) permanent daylight time, as are Argentina, Malaysia, and Singapore. Possibly there’s a bunch of other countries that I don’t know about as well.
The short list of clear “tried it → reversed it” cases is:
- 🇷🇺 Russia (2011–2014)
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (1968–1971)
- 🇺🇸 United States (1940s, 1970s experiments)
And the reason is remarkably consistent:
👉 Permanent DST sounds appealing—but winter mornings break it.
Thanks ChatGPT.
Fully support ditching the switch.
I’d rather Ontario extend Atlantic time to Sudbury.
@ILikeBoobies is Ontario not a single timezone?
It is but the sun comes up and goes down too early all year in the eastern side of it.
@ILikeBoobies ah okay i see what you’re saying
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.
If you’re interested, I can provide a research bibliography.
@RandomCanuck i would be very interested in that, thank you!
In BC, we’ve switched to permanent PDT. But why are we still calling it pacific time? It’s obviously Mountain Time.
It’s always “Pacific”, regardless if it is ST or DST.
The real fuckery is that the referendum gave us only two choices, not three:
- Stay on flip-flopping time changes.
- Go to permanent DST.
There was no option for permanent Standard Time, so everyone chose the least-worst option instead of the much better one that wasn’t even provided.
For west coast permanent daylight is better. We have darkness around 3:30 pm in winter, so now it will be 4:30 which is much better driving hone from work with some daylight. And with daylight time in summer its getting light out around 4:30-4:45am, if we went back to standard time that would be 3:30-3:45am. I don’t enjoy sunshine that early
No I prefer gmt-7 to gmt-8. I just think year-round gmt-7 should be called “mountain time.”
I say we change the time every day such that sunrise is 6am in Toronto. Fuck your/my microwave clock. Permanent standard time would have some post 8am sunrises.
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.
Yes, as long as they go back to the standard for time zones.
My region has not.
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.
Get rid of time change. Have a referemdum for Standard or Daylight, then stick to it.
