Alberta Premier Danielle Smith looking to ditch clock changes as B.C. moves to permanent daylight (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] JustADrone@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 minute ago

We had a referendum on this already. She's just showing that she'll keep coming back to something regardless, until she gets her way. There are 9 referendum questions on deck for this fall.

[-] DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Permanent daylight - that would be some trick, to legislate. Problem is, somewhere there would be permanent night. I don't think that would go over well.

[-] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 hours ago

Can’t wait to hear how moving the clocks is also immigrants’ fault.

[-] Dalraz@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago

A broken clock is right twice a day and with this purpose change a little bit more consistently.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

This is so important. So important.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm guessing you're being sarcastic, but it is important. The constant switching back and forth is very unhealthy and people die as a result of it every year due to increases in, for example, heart attacks and traffic accidents.

[-] Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip 3 points 12 hours ago

Vampires hate this one trick.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago

We already had one of her precious referendums on this matter, and it was voted down. So quit wasting money.

Now if it was staying on standard time, I think everyone would have voted yes. But alas, the politicians got it backwards (as they are prone to do), so it was no. And I'm still not for it today.

[-] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

I never understood this argument. At this latitude, the 1 hour difference between standard and daylight time is kind of irrelevant. The sun still rises really late and sets really early in the winter. I go to work in the dark, and it's dark by quitting time. Shifting it by 1 hour is not going to change that in any meaningful capacity.

I live in Saskatchewan. We don't change our clocks. Do I care whether we are on standard or daylight time? No. Once you stop changing the clocks, it ceases to matter which version of time you run on. You get used to it and move on with life.

[-] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

I feel like this article sums it up quickly and draws on most of the research into this topic:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/daylight-saving-time.html

[-] FlareHeart@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Yes, I've seen these studies before. But even in this article:

The team found that, from a circadian perspective, we’ve made the worst choice. Either permanent standard time or permanent daylight saving time would be healthier than our seasonal waffling, with permanent standard time benefitting the most people.

(Emphasis mine)

Even just stopping the swapping is beneficial. And honestly, this study being "county by county" tells me that it is a US-centric study, which is primarily South of us in latitude and thus actually stands to benefit from a slight shift in the time.

However, in the depths of winter, we get sunlight from 10 am to 3 pm (ish) in my home province's chosen timezone. No 1 hour shift is going to give us "evening" sunlight. Shifting it by 1 hour at most gives us sun until 4 pm. Which means the people working until 4:30 or 5 (or later) are still going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark.

So I will reiterate, at this latitude, changing is not as meaningful. Changing the clocks in spring and fall is actively the most harmful option. So even if the "not-best" option is chosen, can we at least get away from the worst one? Please?