Time Change

[gone fishin]

If we were to keep Daylight Saving Time all year, in Victoria, we would be travelling to work or sending the kids off to school in the dark for over 3 of the winter months.
Some say changing the clocks by an hour twice a year is too tough on their health.
I say “suck it up buttercup” it’s best just the way it ls!

 

[scott craven]

I would prefer staying on daylight saving time year round.
Pretty sure it will happen.... one day.

 

[RowBob]

When you read all the experts who have weighed in on the subject and the negative effects of this practice, it seems crazy that billions of people work shift work and change from days to afternoons to nights once a week! How do they do it?

 

[Rain City]

I used to be on the DST train but after listening to A TON of debate on this lately (again, of course). I am now on the switch to permanent ST train. Maybe I'm getting old but the thought of later days in the summer isn't as appealing as getting my crusty brain to wake up earlier in the winter.

 

[sly_karma]

I'm with @Rain City - keep it on standard time all year. We had to move to 8 am starts the past 2 weeks because it was getting too dark to see on the job site at 7. In mid summer the days and the twilight are so long no one would care if sunset is 830 pm instead of 930. From November to late January, kids will be going to school in pitch darkness; PACs and school boards won't tolerate that unsafe situation for long and will move back hours accordingly, meaning of course that the "extra" hour of daylight after school will be lost and therefore the whole exercise is pointless.

I reckon the concept of keeping in sync with the US west coast states is an argument with little merit. There is considerably greater volume of commerce between BC and Alberta that continues just fine despite the one hour time difference. Likewise, the west coast states manage plenty of trade with their Mountain Time Zone neighbours with little trouble. Continued trade between BC and its neighbours to the south depends on having desirable goods and services at attractive prices, same as it always has. Time zone alignment is a red herring. The polls where people say they support daylight saving all year is really just people wishing out loud that the days weren't so short in winter. Meaningless.

 

[Bryan Allen]

Well my old lab still thinks its DST, so I was up this morning at 5am to feed her.......

 

[noluck]

funny thing is there is a area in BC that does not change there clock's, that is where i grew up. Dawson Creek

 

[man*of*steel]

funny thing is there is a area in BC that does not change there clock's, that is where i grew up. Dawson Creek

Creston also.

 

[Gong Show]

Well my old lab still thinks its DST, so I was up this morning at 5am to feed her.......

Longest day of the year in a lab's life.
Mine seems fairly ok at breakfast, but he is on his side barely even able to lift his head waiting for his one hour late dinner!
I can handle to change without too much drama, but think of the labradors!!

 

[IronNoggin]

 

[Reelin In The Years]

The trouble with staying on ST time is it will be light at 3:30, so getting up at 2:30 for first light fishing.
Also, don't like when it's dark at 4:30. Just my opinion on that one.
Yukon, NWT and Alaska has kids that go to school and seem to adjust to 24 hrs. of darkness no problem.

 

[Salmon Seeker]

I hate the time changes. I would rather stay on daylight time permanently. I get home from work around 6pm so the extra time in the evening is more important to me than mornings. Plus it makes first light fishing a little easier

 

[Bent-Tip]

I woke up at the usual time Sunday morning. It was just an hour earlier on the clock. Day break is day break.

 

[Rain City]

The trouble with staying on ST time is it will be light at 3:30, so getting up at 2:30 for first light fishing.
Also, don't like when it's dark at 4:30. Just my opinion on that one.
Yukon, NWT and Alaska has kids that go to school and seem to adjust to 24 hrs. of darkness no problem.

I think that sounds like we'd have some hard core all night benders to go fishing.

 

[ziggy]

Don’t really care which one, just wish they would pick one and stick with it. I’m sure whatever one the Western US picks will be the one we go with.