There’s now more daylight for winter camping. This is a total game changer to me
Where I live in BC, people literally stop camping the day the clocks go back
I have lived in Saskatchewan my whole life time changes have affected me a whole whopping two times, both where because tech things thought I was in the Manitoba time zone and I thought I was an hour late for something when they fell back or sprange forward.
-"In the dead of winter, sunrise might not happen until close to 9 a.m., which means “young people who are going to school are going to have to do so in pure darkness,” and that has potential health implications, Mak said.
The light people are exposed to in the morning stabilizes the body’s circadian rhythm — the natural 24-hour internal clock that regulates sleep-wake cycles and other biological processes.
“[It] gives us better mood and better energy. So we’re going to see an amplification of disturbed nighttime sleep, reduced total sleep time,” said Mak, clinical vice-president of the Canadian Sleep Society."-
Its one friggin hour. So people are going to get so much morning sun if its perm st over dst. the only thing I see here is think of the children but you know society determines the start and stop time of the school day. Honsetly the whole thing is silly as we are the ones deciding when to get up and start things. rather than dst how about we just change our schedules when we want to.
When I was in school we walked in the dark I winter. And come on no one is walking to school these days everyone gets driven.
even if the argument has merit its like why change the clocks. set the school schedule for the shortest day of the year. I mean summer is no school or an alternative schedule anyway.
I go to work AND go home from work in the dark in the winter even with the time change. If we stay on daylight time, I might actually see the sun after work.
thats what I kind of mean. Its like fine we can do st but then make 8-4 the typical day or whatever. its like either way I prefer to have a bit of sun at some point.
I wonder if those experts are familiar with the expression “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”
Maybe, maybe not, but they are 100% right choosing to stop this clock changing nonsense.
Yeah, I’d like to see a comparison of switching to permanent DST and continuing with the twice-annual changes.
We have a century of data. Nowhere in Canada or globally should be continuing with the twice-annual changes.
I know health experts mean well, but I had to make a meme about it:
I’ve lived my whole life in Saskatchewan on Daylight time. It’s fine. Everyone else in Saskatchewan that I know is fine. The changing clocks is worse than staying on Daylight time.
Why settle for “fine” when it could be better?
Why let perfect be the enemy of progress?
Yeah, exactly. Our marking of time is an arbitrary construct, so if you look for advantages at one end of the year for school or work, you’ll have to adjust at the other end.
If China can operate under one singular BST zone, then people will adjust to this.
Big deal. Just means waking up an hour earlier in the winter and actually having some sunlight at the end of the day.
Manitoba is on the eastern side of their timezone. They aren’t getting hours of dark in the morning by doing this, they are getting sunlight at 5pm.
