Agree with the sentiment but these online petitions are worthless in my opinion
Absolutely, first I think it is a provincial jurisdiction, and for instance Québec already said that they will align with NY state jurisdiction, so this petition is useless.
I'll agree, with one exception (which might prove the rule): www.ourcommons.ca which hosts official House of Commons petitions (I believe some provinces have a similar website).
No. I want daylight savings time all year round. Standard time is balls.
I couldn't care less about which mode we're on. It's like debating if we should remain sitting down or standing up to avoid getting punched in the face or the dick. Just stop fucking hitting us!
I want more sunlight in the evening for my activities after my 9-5 job!
What's the fucking point of having sunlight at 5am if I'm fucking sleeping?
Maybe we also should talk about not needing to work so many hours that it's necessary to ration the sun then, too.
9-5 is not too many hours. It having to be 9-5 is a bigger problem.
If this guy could work 8-4 instead, the clock choice would not matter.
9-5 is not too many hours.
Yes, it is.
ooh, maybe that's what we should do... during the winter months when there's less daylight we can shift our working hours, then in the summer months we can shift our working hours back. Then there's no need to change the time!
Join the petition to ask the Canadian government to adopt Daylight Time all year round.
I ask the Canadian Government to finally stop Daylight Saving Time and enact Permanent Standard Time.
So uhh.. which is it?
I want the current time (DST) forever and will sign accordinly
It was the latter. Op seems to have updated their post accordingly.
Some good analysis on why having summer time as the permanent time would be good for safety
https://drivingintherealworld.com/turning-back-time-a-strike-against-pedestrians-literally/
Good initial, but why not do a proper Citizen Petition in your state instead of a scam for profit website?
I think the whole world just adopt a single time. We'd just get used to midday being 9pm and eating dinner at 2am. No more time zones to worry about.
Worldwide UTC now!
UTC is a thing and used by many industries!
China only has has one time zone for the whole country. Daylight savings can go, but I can understand that because of the earths orbit around the sun there is a need for time zones, I think most people agree that wherever you are, 6am should be morning time, unless everyone wants to move over to military time, and just have a 24 hour clock. It would take some getting used to, but that would be the only way to truly get rid of time zones.
Honest question. Can someone tell me of any time an online petition actually amounted to change in the real world?
I'm not sure about these "change" petitions which always seemed to me as just a way to gather user data. But, go to the House of Commons website where you will be able to view actual petitions to the government of Canada. There, you can sign them and/or create your own. If you're lucky, the government may even respond with some thoughts/excuses. 🙂
I just hate how in Toronto the sun comes up/goes down an hour too early year round
This won’t change that though, I need to live at the western edge of a timezone
IIRC didn't a recent prime minister (probably Trudeau) say that we would do it if the US also did it? I agree that DST is a mistake but I think doing it without coordination of the US would be cause fare more pain than benefits.
The EU also recommended member states to stop doing DST if I recall correctly. So it seems like if the US can be convinced the world would pretty quickly move away from DST.
On the other hand aren't the health concerns mostly bunk? I remember seeing a lot of studies that noted an uptick of various issues during a DST transition but closer inspection revealed that the vast majority of this effect was time-shifting of issues that were going to happen anyways. Basically if you were going to have a heart attack in the next week you will have it during the jump, but if you look at the week or month overall there was no statically significant change. I do admit that I am behind on research here though. Are there any well reviewed meta-analysis that are showing significant results?
Yes, there is some decent research on this though nothing super definitive because most research is still very local. Specially on traffic accidents, most security experts agree that having DST permanent would be beneficial.
I'm the opinion that having fewer crashes would offset the mild annoyance of being 1 hour out of sync with the US, but I'm not too strong on this stance either. We have other things that have higher return for same level of effort to implement... like better car lighting regulations that as always the US (NHTSA) is fucking motionless and we're locked to them.
I'd put all chips to eliminating RTOR but I don't expect to see that in my lifetime.
I'll respectfully say, "NO".
It would hurt my physical and mental health more to see the sun set at 7:30-8pm during the summer, and would benefit no one for the sun to come up at 4:30am in Toronto.
But from a population perspective, the idea for permanent standard time Canada-widel is flawed.
Sleep is more negatively impacted by people's phone use and caffeine consumption, not the time.
Car accidents are impacted more by phone use and distractions inside of cars; and the fact that large SUVs basically kill everyone. It's interesting to note that traffic fatalities in Saskatchewan (permanent standard time) is considerably higher than other provinces.
Heart attacks and strokes are 99% lifestyle-related: with diet and exercise being the most important factors. You might be surprised to hear that watching a live sporting event also contributes to heart attacks, but I'm sure nobody wants to ban hockey.
Also as an FYI, heart failure is higher in Saskatchewan (permanent standard time) vs Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, etc. (all have DTS half the year).
I appreciate the desire to reduce deaths and car accidents, but there are significantly better ways to do it.
No thanks. BC has super early sunrise in summer with Daylight savings, going back to standard time for summer would put the daylight starting about 3:30-4am
Each province should work out what suits their average day. BC we get 45 minutes more early morning sun, Ontario and East gets about 45 mins later sun.
So their plan is 3:30am sunrise?
What's so crazy about that? It's pretty far north, it's pretty normal to have long sunlight hours in the summer up north. Northern BC doesn't get any night time in the summer anyways. The darkest they get is nautical twilight. And they get almost 19 hours of sun.
Premier David Eby has said change will be enacted once Washington state, Oregon, California also make the move
How likely is this to happen in the next few years, though? Seems hopeless to me.
Join the petition to ask the Canadian government to adopt Daylight Time all year round.
I ask the Canadian Government to finally stop Daylight Saving Time and enact Permanent Standard Time.
Is the first line supposed to be Standard Time?
Can we do it after they give me my hour of sleep back though? I suspect they'd just do it after the stupid "spring forward" and rob us of that precious hour
I'd rather be on permanent daylight saving time since I hate it when it gets dark so early.
Don't be picky.
Nah, I'll be picky because this shit fucks me up for months. Going back the other way messes me up for a much shorter time.
Fucking normies and their daytime schedules lol. Us night walkers get no respect 😂
I can't relate, since we don't change the clocks ever in Saskatchewan. I always considered it rather dumb that most of NA does.
It used to mess up my tv shows as a kid, now that was annoying.
Regardless, it would be a once time thing and over with, so really a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
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