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[–] 22 points 5 days ago

Just pick standard time FFS. If you want to wake up earlier just do it, don't drag everyone with you.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Just do the whole fucking province for fuck sake

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    This actually makes sense. Northwestern Ontario is already in the Central time zone, so failing to follow Manitoba would have left northwestern Ontario a hour behind both Manitoba (in the winter months) and the rest of Ontario (all year round). Not ideal.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    As a Saskatchewan resident who does not understand the idocracy of DST I remember looking things up, because I thought it would need to take Ontario to change to get the rest of Canada to follow the Yukon Territory to stop this and be more reasonable like Saskatchewan. My readings found that Ontario would not do it until New York did it and New York was not going to do it until Ontario did it.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    Everyone is picking the wrong one!!!

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    [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It was tried before in the UK (1968-71), the USA (1973-74), Russia (2011-14) and Chile (2015). In each case, it was popular at first because it meant no more changing the clocks twice a year, but quickly became very unpopular because of early-morning traffic fatalities, children waiting for buses in pitch darkness, and general seasonal depression, made worse from it staying dark until late in the morning in winter.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago*

    What we really need is to realign the time zones Toronto should be on Atlantic time and Sault West should be on Eastern time (for Ontario)

    At present for example it gets dark too early and the sun comes out too early in Toronto.

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