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    BC führt die dauerhafte Sommerzeit ein, nachdem es das letzte Mal vorgezogen wurde | Globalnews.ca

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    1. macross1984 on

      Wish US will adopt permanent daylight saving time too. This spring forward and fall back are real pain.

      It also might lower accidents on road from sleepy driver.

    2. stephenBB81 on

      I hope more provinces follow suit!

      Especially Ontario! Also need Calendar apps to help catch the timezone differentials.

    3. philophilo on

      No more DST. No more time zones. UTC only. 24-hour time.

      Businesses just run on times that make sense locally. They already do this anyway. No company runs 9-5 anymore. You always have to look up a business’s hours.

    7. BlackberryPi7 on

      The only issue I have (and quite honestly probably a lot of people) is that this will cause mornings to be darker for longer and evenings to be lighter.

      That and traveling back and forth to Washington (once a crazy government is no longer in power) will be confusing until the States on the West Coast finally adopt this standard.

    10. VeritasEtUltio on

      Hope the senators from Washington State are paying attention.. can we be next?

    11. armin514 on

      i think all Canada wants it but we were waiting for USA approval . Now that they dont give a shit about their allies we should all just move on

    12. Nimelennar on

      Jesus, I’ve seen what you’ve done for other people, and I want that for me.

    13. bass248 on

      I guess all the other Canadian provinces and U.S states that are in Pacific time zone will have to do the same. Then because they do it the provinces and states it Mountain time zone will have to do it as well. Followed by Central and Eastern time zones. That way nothing is thrown off.

      I’m aware of a few places that have gotten rid of daylight savings day but all of them do.

    14. Yadahoom on

      Except that feels completely backward.

      Make it permanent standard time like the rest of the world

    18. Itisd on

      Good. Now if the rest of Canada would go ahead and do that too, that’d be great.

    19. AdSevere1274 on

      Yes… permanent daylight saving time is the way to go. Come on Ontario.. you should be next.

    20. Ziazan on

      I’m jealous, I want that. It gets dark waaaay too early for half the year, that hour shift makes such a huge difference.

    21. Anotherthrowblanket on

      So when the Eastern time zone falls back an hour this autumn will that mean BC PST will be 4 hours behind instead of three? I can’t math.

    22. Much_Friendship5497 on

      „The decision means that B.C. will be on the same time zone as the Yukon and will match Alberta from November to March, while it will remain one hour **behind** Washington state, Oregon and California during the winter months.“

      Actually they will be one hour **ahead** of the West Coast states in winter unless my brain is broken. Because they will not move the clocks back an hour in winter like those states will.

    23. snarpy on

      haha this news is like seven of my top ten stories right now, from worldnews down to my town’s and everywhere in between

    24. vulpinefever on

      We actually live in a world where it’s easier to permanently agree to not have noon be (aproximately) solar noon than it is to just… work from 8 to 4 so that people can have another hour of daylight in the evening.

      The health of the average person must suffer because god forbid standard business hours be anything other than 9 to 5.

    25. YungJuiceBox489 on

      Finally! It takes one province with the balls to do this and the rest will follow.

    26. TheVenetianMask on

      Wait, you can actually do it? I thought you could only discuss it every year and never do it.

    28. joshrosario on

      Meanwhile, in the North Peace, we’ve been trying to remember if we’re on Calgary or Vancouver time throughout the year even though we haven’t changed since the 70’s. Even better, we are on permanent MST and the rest of BC will be on permanent PDT (same but different, I guess?)

    29. PhantomNomad on

      So next fall when Alberta falls back an hour, that means we will be two hours different then BC. Not that it matters much to me as I wish Alberta would just stop changing the clock also. I would prefer standard time though. In the middle of winter that hour just doesn’t matter. It’s always dark when you wake up and go to work and always dark when you come home. Only time it matters just a little bit is the few weeks in the fall and spring.

    32. PBSNerd1234 on

      Permanent **standard time** is actually the healthier option, not permanent DST.

      Daylight Saving Time is basically shifting the clock an hour later than solar time. In winter, permanent DST would mean sunrise after 8:30 or even 9:00 am in many places. That’s kids going to school in the dark, people commuting in the dark, and less morning light when our bodies actually need it.

      Major sleep and medical organizations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, recommend permanent **standard** time because it aligns better with our natural circadian rhythms. Morning light is what sets your body clock, improves alertness, and supports mental health. Evening light is nice, but biologically it’s less important.

      People imagine permanent DST means bright winter evenings. It doesn’t. In December, it’s still dark at 5 or 6 pm either way. The real tradeoff is:
      • Permanent DST = darker mornings
      • Permanent standard time = brighter mornings

      If we’re picking one forever, it makes more sense to align with the sun instead of permanently living one hour off from it. (Plus, shouldn’t noon be when the sun is at its peak? Just out of a sense of what’s right?)

      If the goal is to stop changing clocks, I’m all for that. But standard time is the one that actually works with human biology.

    35. tulaero23 on

      Thank God. This shit is fucking my son’s bedtime routine for a while now.

    37. Strippalicious on

      As an Arizona resident, I can vouch that it’s pretty awesome not changing the clock

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