Daylight savings time.
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I can definitely confirm it is a perk to living in Saskatchewan for sure. (As it is -25C today, it might be the only good thing about Saskatchewan between now and March - or whenever the DST goes back)
Apart from a few electronics that try 'help' adjust to DST by geographic area, it is handy to not worry about it. I really don't notice any real value in DST. So what the sun is down at 5PM, and up at 8AM? Would I do anyhting different if it was magically down at 6PM and up as 9AM? (or 4PM and 7AM?) Nopers.
Apart from a few electronics that try 'help' adjust to DST by geographic area, it is handy to not worry about it. I really don't notice any real value in DST. So what the sun is down at 5PM, and up at 8AM? Would I do anyhting different if it was magically down at 6PM and up as 9AM? (or 4PM and 7AM?) Nopers.
Yeah staying on DST isn't all that popular. That's why it failed to pass in the last AB provincial election. No one likes changing the time twice a year but more than 50% of voters did not want to stay on DST. If the question had been should Alberta stay on MST year round, it would have passed by a landslide.
As for me I don't really notice the time change. All my personal time-keeping devices change automatically, so I go to bed and wake up and for the most part don't know or think about the change. It's a pain to change my clocks in the vehicles.
As for me I don't really notice the time change. All my personal time-keeping devices change automatically, so I go to bed and wake up and for the most part don't know or think about the change. It's a pain to change my clocks in the vehicles.
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I guess I'll be the odd one out, I would much rather it stay light longer into the evening. I can work in the shop in the morning, I'd rather have the sunshine in the evening for outdoor activities. The winters I spent working at a dealership it felt like I didnt see the sun all winter
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Agree, if that Alberta plebiscite would have stated stay on standard time year-round I also believe it would have passed.
But not by my vote.
My champion of pita clock setting is a bedroom two display, one on the ceiling projector, set separately, keep time separately, what a rigmarole pita the projector one is to set!
But I’ll be happy doing it twice a year.
I would love to just stay on DST year round. From an ag perspective it is way better Alberta is on the same time as Saskatchewan for the simple reason of where the parts warehouses are located and such. I know a few times in the winter we have been screwed by that one hour on an order. Frankly the plebiscite should have been a one two approach, the first "should we change at all" then which should we stay on. That's why the plebiscite failed in reality, the Standard time crowd really didn't give a good reason as to why and in those cases the status quo always prevails.
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Hate it, especially in spring time. An old native that used to come out hunting said it's like cutting an inch of the top of a blanket and sewing it on the bottom.
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I never understood daylight savings time I grew up in Saskatchewan. It causes so much damage to health and the economy. If your job is affected by this why not have those people have summer hours and winter hours and leave the rest to not be negatively affected by this crap.
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Scientific proof please.
You might like this, saw a couple university professors a few years ago propose time be all the same around the world.
Would sure streamline flight times.
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Really, wasn't it always contributing to health problems, and the cost to the economy in missing work and adjusting, it was always a point about the stress it did to people trying to adjust. it was always on the news, and the accidents that occurred because of it is well documented. what more proof do you need than insurance claims, I worked in a lot of jobs and every year people showed up late and the day was shot because of the confusion. that was what I saw and on a populous level, it would just have impacted everybody at a larger scale. the evidence of disruption is very well a statistical fact just google it.
Sure the shortening and lengthening of the day does have some kind of effect, but it's a gradual thing over the course of the year. And since the body's clock is pretty close to 24 hours it seems, if you continue to wake and go to bed at the same time, there's not much effect on sleeping patterns for most people. It's not like the DST jump that's suddenly an hour overnight (literally). That seems to really throw some people. Apparently when the time jumps forward in the spring, there's an increase in heart attacks measured in the US, but not in the fall change. Possibly due to loss of sleep. But if people just went to bed an hour early in the spring change maybe there'd be less problems.
People used to travel around the world before the airplane but no one ever experienced lag because the time change and the change (relative to their body's clocks) of the sunrise and sunset was so gradual they didn't even notice it. A day would be slightly longer coming west, and slightly shorter going east. In Around the World in 80 Days Phileas Fogg traveled East for 80 sunrises and sunsets (one of the two anyway), but for the people back in London, only 79 days had passed. Bit of a brain bender that.
The only thing I can say in favor of DST is that before DST spraying would start about 4am here. But that was before the advent of low-drift nozzles. I don't generally spray at the crack of dawn these days so it probably wouldn't matter, and I cover a lot more ground than my dad used to with his 60' rig. And before I farmed, I used to like DST in the fall because I had time to do some outdoor recreational activities after work. Now I am too tired to do any recreational activities after work in the fall.
People used to travel around the world before the airplane but no one ever experienced lag because the time change and the change (relative to their body's clocks) of the sunrise and sunset was so gradual they didn't even notice it. A day would be slightly longer coming west, and slightly shorter going east. In Around the World in 80 Days Phileas Fogg traveled East for 80 sunrises and sunsets (one of the two anyway), but for the people back in London, only 79 days had passed. Bit of a brain bender that.
The only thing I can say in favor of DST is that before DST spraying would start about 4am here. But that was before the advent of low-drift nozzles. I don't generally spray at the crack of dawn these days so it probably wouldn't matter, and I cover a lot more ground than my dad used to with his 60' rig. And before I farmed, I used to like DST in the fall because I had time to do some outdoor recreational activities after work. Now I am too tired to do any recreational activities after work in the fall.
My off farm job is shift work at a power plant. My longevity on this earth maybe/likely effected by 20 yrs so far. Im ok with that as it’s the means of me making ends meet. So the 1 hour swing that buggers everyone up I don’t get which is irrelevant.
I think the vote should have been to stay on MST. Staying on DST year round doesn’t make sense to me IMO.
I think the vote should have been to stay on MST. Staying on DST year round doesn’t make sense to me IMO.
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Lets all be Newfies, split the difference and the do 1/2hr thingy.
You know in all this DST discussions I had forgot that Saskatchewan actually chose to stay on mountain daylight savings year-round years ago. Originally only the eastern edge of Sask was in Central Time and the majority of Sask was in Mountain time. When Sask decided to put the entire province in CST, that was in effect making Mountain DST permanent for the majority of the province that was in the Mountain time zone. So there is president for sticking with DST year round, and most people there are fine with it.
If Alberta wanted to keep DST year round that essentially just puts us in CST as well.
If Alberta wanted to keep DST year round that essentially just puts us in CST as well.
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