@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)?
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.
If you’re interested, I can provide a research bibliography.
@RandomCanuck i would be very interested in that, thank you!
Stop changing the clocks. I don’t care which permanent time we pick, just make it permanent.
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.
Also from Saskatchewan, lived in Alberta for a few years. I have literally never in my life had a moment where I wished Sask did time changes, and found it stressful and annoying every time it happened while living elsewhere.
Stop changing your clocks! Good job BC, I hope you start some dominoes!
SK doesn’t get many things right, but not observing DST is one of them.
Came here to say the same thing.
When the whole time zone and DST were being introduced it is my understanding that it was “because the cows wouldn’t understand why they were being fed an hour early or later depending on the time of the year.”
Here is to the livestock for saving people from the week of more car accidents and heart attacks!
@FlareHeart if it’s the worse option then I wonder why everywhere keeps going for it (BC and the Yukon too). My guess is that it’s partially for economic reasons. Most people are out and about in the evening, so by allowing for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening you open the window of time when people will engage in economic activities. This could have indirect health benefits through increased employment or something, who knows.
I’m not sure. I know that due to our position and lack of sunlight, most Canadians are deficient in vitamin D, so I supplement for that anyway. But I love not having to change my clocks. One hour’s shift of what little sunlight we get in the winter doesn’t matter IMO. Just stop flip-flopping!
Oh, the horror of changing a clock…
Oh, the horror of poorer mental health, increased car accidents and heart attacks…
Ooo.psychology today , that’s almost science.
Like most psychology studies, they misuse stats to generate a conclusion they already made before the study. Psychology is a joke, epidemiology is a joke, but together the make the Reece’s peanut butter of shit science.
What if all those events were just due to weather changes coincident with fall and spring time changes? Did they look at mean temperatures? Air pressure?
Example, from the link you didn’t read,
“An analysis in the European Journal of Public Health from 2024 showed no increase in suicide in Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden following the start of daylight saving time. However, data vary, and studies show that some subgroups, including patients with substance use disorders, may incur a 6.59 percent increase in suicide risk soon after the springtime change.”
A subgroup of a subgroup may have (that means not significant) an effect. Typical of garbage published around this.
I suggest you people find solutions to real problems in the world.
Heavy use of sarcasm, unironic use of “you people” when replying to a single person, and turning it all into whataboutism.
Bad faith arguments.
Not worth my time.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Fully support ditching the switch.
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.
@TheFeatureCreature What do you prefer about standard time?
I prefer earlier darkness in the evening.
@TheFeatureCreature that’s fair enough
The fact that clock noon is actually within a half hour of solar noon, and not a whole hour and a bit off.
Kelowna varies from being less than 2 minutes off of solar noon to about 11 minutes off at the most. Now it’s going to be permanently an entire hour-plus off.
Why call it noon if it isn’t actually noon?
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.
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.
