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Finally!
Very good! Changing the clock twice a year is an insanity people accept as normal, and that shouldn’t be the case. Please let Ontario be next (I know of weak sauce Bill 214).
As a sysadmin or programmer its a nightmare.
Now I’m waiting for Australia to stick to one; then there won’t be a two hour staggered swing in time difference twice a year.
The legeslation has been in place for years, but we held off because we didn’t want to be out of sync with Washington, Oregon, and California.
From https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209:
Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones.
Thanks Trump :D
Trump changing space-time
About damn time!
…or is it about an hour from damn time? I can never remember.
oh no, an update to tzdata coming
Servers that don’t update = minor Y2K. But only for small websites/businesses/servers and that won’t affect anything important. Who doesn’t update their server for months, knowing this change is coming, right?
It should be fun!
It does happen every few months.
We are indeed living in interesting times…
I actually heard an argument against permanent DST that I still haven’t really been able to refute. The reasoning was that darker conditions in the mornings during winter could make things more hazardous for kids walking to school. In places with properly pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, it probably wouldn’t be an issue, but at least in more suburban areas, I can’t say I disagree. Changing back and forth twice a year is still silly, but I feel like I might prefer permanent standard time over permanent DST in a lot of places.
Schools can choose to start later in the day if they find it helpful, without needing everyone else to change their clocks and schedules too
You’re either walking to or from school in the dark in more northern places, it’s an irrelevant argument.
Shortest day of the year in my city is only 8 hours long.
Or going to work in the dark, and going home in the dark. Daylight? Never heard of it.
When I quit smoking I actually had to start taking my short break and just stand outside just to get some vitamin d from the sun.
Working in factories, condos or high rises during construction, forget it.
That’s caused (at least in part) by assigning timezones according to politics rather than longitude. Some places have gotten really skewed.
Anyway, most of us just want the government to pick one thing and stick with it. We don’t care whether they pick DST, ST, or create a new half-hour timezone to split the difference so long as the changing back and forth stops.
The main reason it still exists is not a good one.
People are ised to it happening and are scared of change.
School hours could change. And if you’re far north enough, standard or daylight ain’t gonna matter, there will be times when kids are walking in the dark.
BC winter is dark and gloomy in the morning and dark again by 3:30. So this won’t mean much for us, other than some actually usable daylight
What if there was a standard time to move to? Wouldn’t that be the standard?
Daylight Savings Time, or Summer Time, is in use for 9 months of the year, and is thus the de facto standard. Daylight Wasting Time, or Winter Time, is only in use for 3 months of the year, which makes it the exception.
My initial reaction was “Finally!” but, honestly, I don’t think this has affected me in years. Maybe 15 years ago, before all my devices tracking time were smart and self-updating, I could miss an appointment or something. Ever since, I just go to sleep and wake up when an alarm goes off and I don’t even notice the time change.
Maybe not as consciously as you’re thinking, but your body notices. Car accidents and heart attacks actually increase in the week following Spring Forward.
I moved to Japan a decade ago and there are not time changes (though I’d argue that, at least for eastern Japan, we’re in the wrong timezone). It is much easier on my body not making that change twice a year. I have a really sensitive sleep schedule so this is very important to me.
The week after the time change has the highest level of heart attacks and car accidents. So yes, it affects everyone.
Would it trouble you to do this though? Any reason to object? Like so many things, if it isn’t a detriment to you and it could help others, why not get behind it?
There’s evidence for death and lost productivity associated with each of these biannual shifts. There’s not a whole lot to support the pro daylight savings side of the argument.
Also, your future self would likely support this. It is unlikely your ability to not notice the time change will persist as you become older.
I think my post was pretty clear that my initial reaction was positive, then just a realization it doesn’t matter much to me, so it’s totally fine.
Mostly though, I’m just responding because the combo of your username and your reply made me laugh.
Goodbye to “high noon”, “mid-day” and accurate sundials. Stupid to legislate an idiotic idea like “daylight savings” into permanence. But typical for morons to not think things through.
At least stopping the unhealthy, dangerous practice of time change is a step in the right direction.
I don’t give a flying fuck if we stay on DST or ST, just stop the seasonal switches. High noon is already inaccurate the further you move from the “center” of a timezone.
Yeah, I agree with both of your opinions. We could just go back to the “real” time for the time zone, but the zone still means inaccuracies. Also, the whole concept of a clock is man made and can be whatever we want. Even more so, we can have lunch whenever we want, too - so it doesn’t even matter when 12pm is, you can still have lunch when the sun is highest.
In the end we just have to agree on any fixed point to count from. BUT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE COSMICALLY DEFINED 😭
I’m so excited for this. Even working from home I hate changing time cause it still messes with my sleep schedule and my cats feeding schedule.
My cats also get confused, and then they get pushy about it.
I with it was permanent standard time, I am very sad they decided on year-round daylight.
Nice! The world has been so shit for years now, I didn’t expect this kind of bottom-of-the-list legislation to pass until like 2056. Glad someone cares enough to sweat the small stuff. I hope the other provinces follow suit. Last I heard, Ontario was in a deadlock because NY State didn’t want to budge on it, but you know, elbows up!
Not a fan.
Daylight savings was/is my “whiner” test.
If someone can’t handle DST then they can’t handle the smallest thing in the world - I have no time for them because literally everything else in the world is bigger and more complex so they’re incapable of dealing with anything.
This is the saddest argument against scraping DST I’ve heard yet. Just because someone doesn’t like something has nothing to do with their ability to “deal with things”
Would you like me to piss in your Cheerios? You know just to make you more hardened to difficult events.
I’m already hardened. Others need to be as well or STFU.
OK snowflake.
Lol, you just a troll. Ciao
You qualify for the STFU. Blocked. Enjoy.
Hey, can I get on that list too?
Congrats, along side Sprocketfree you also win your very own STFU, you have now been blocked. Enjoy.
You too huh? Bye forever.
Aww muffinnnn. Would you like a bag of dicks? Or some shit in your mouth perhaps to lighten your sour mood? Quit your bitching. Now you’ll be the one being judged as the little weenie who can’t handle a small change. Bye forever.
Not liking something doesn’t mean they can’t handle it
I worked on cruise ships and had multiple time changes every week. For one contract, the time changed almost daily, for months. I always found people complaining about DST to be hilarious.
Daylight savings was/is my “whiner” test.
If someone can’t handle DST then they can’t handle the smallest thing in the world - I have no time for them because literally everything else in the world is bigger and more complex so they’re incapable of dealing with anything.
I love this hypocrisy. It’s fantastic.
It blows me away that we change the clock to meet corporate time tables vs having flexible work days.
And not like it makes a damn difference anyways. It’s gonna be extra dark outside regardless of if we fuck with everyone’s schedule or not. One hour doesn’t make a significant difference in the amount of light we get in a day when we still just work for 8-9 hours of the day inside of a building.
Exactly. People tend to blame the winter darkness on the clock change but even if we didn’t change our clocks, winter only gives us about 9 hours of sunlight during the shortest days of winter.
When you have less than 8 hours od daylight, it’s going to be dark for both commutes (assuming a commute)
Yeah like, whoopidee doo, it’s light out during the morning while I’m off to work, I sure do get to enjoy that glimpse of daylight during my commute! Gonna be dark after I’m done regardless of the extra hour.
