Canada

I am a little excited to not have to change our clocks back come November. I know experts say we should have stayed on Standard time and I probably would have preferred that, but I don't think it's going to make more of a difference than the torture of changing our clocks and fucking up our sleep twice a year. We can work around excess daylight, we can't work around screwing up the timing of our body processes. It would be foolish of the other provinces to not follow suit.

Im in favor of not having fascism anywhere in the world. Who cares about time change when there is an active conspiracy to instill fascism in all governments worldwide.

As long as its standard time.

yes, we should just be on winter time year round

I'm from Saskatchewan. Literally nothing would change for me.

Apparently I'm the only person in the country who doesn't find the seasonal time changing to be problematic.

I like having the extra sunshine hours in the summer evenings, and having sunrise come a bit sooner in the winter. And I've never personally experienced any dramatically negative effects on the days when the time changes.

No. Not at all. The country is too large for that. Does no-one care about the effect of planetary movements anymore? An hour here or there does not effect circadian rhythms. Night-shifts do.

What I want goes the opposite way, but it'd require some serious infrastructure-updates, 1st:

I want days to begin either at solar-dusk or at solar-midnight,

& night & day each to be divided into 12 "hours",

& people to begin anchoring to the natural cycles of night & day, instead of pretending that living-in-boxes divorced-from-nature is somehow our best choice!

It'd take some getting-used-to, but with microcontroller-clocks, for doing the calculations, it's work beautifully.

Midday becomes locked to the sun.

Midnight becomes locked to the sun being at nadir.

Dawn means something, so does dusk.

Etc.

Mechanismists would hate it, of course, but all the creatures of Nature, whom we've been holocausting, would probably benefit.

( this also requires accepting the biological fact in "WHEN: The Science of Perfect Timing", by Pink,

that there are early-morning people, there are late-morning people, there are owls ( which covers nearly everybody else ), & what that-book missed, is that there also are chaos-"cycle" people, whose biology isn't regular.

Having the late-morning people & the owls NOT have to be at work early, would reduce the deaths-on-the-roads.

& having each day's cycle be mere-minutes different from the last, instead of the arbitrary 1h-jump in spring/fall, would remove the sudden-jump-in-deaths on the roads, then, too, obviously )

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Hate the time changes as much as anybody else, get rid of them, but only if we get Standard Time from it and do away with DST entirely.

When we had the vote in Alberta to change to permanent Daylight Savings Time, I voted against the idea. I understand that it's better than changing the clocks at all, but it makes no sense to me whatsoever to basically change our timezone and stick with Daylight Savings permanently when we should be getting rid of it entirely.

I'd rather keep the flip-flop so that the option to do away with DST entirely remains on the table in the future. In my mind, it's a lot more likely that another vote appears to get rid of the flip-flop with going to Standard Time as an option than it is for us to get rid of the flip-flop and have a vote getting rid of permanent DST in favour of Standard Time.