I never understood this argument. At this latitude, the 1 hour difference between standard and daylight time is kind of irrelevant. The sun still rises really late and sets really early in the winter. I go to work in the dark, and it’s dark by quitting time. Shifting it by 1 hour is not going to change that in any meaningful capacity.
I live in Saskatchewan. We don’t change our clocks. Do I care whether we are on standard or daylight time? No. Once you stop changing the clocks, it ceases to matter which version of time you run on. You get used to it and move on with life.
In BC we have a short winter day, so adding an hour of daylight at the end when many are done work is helpful. And summer the sun rises at 4:30 on daylight time so stick to Daylight time is good, moving to standard time would menq sunrise at 3:30 am. Yuck
Yes, I’ve seen these studies before. But even in this article:
The team found that, from a circadian perspective, we’ve made the worst choice. Either permanent standard time or permanent daylight saving time would be healthier than our seasonal waffling, with permanent standard time benefitting the most people.
(Emphasis mine)
Even just stopping the swapping is beneficial. And honestly, this study being “county by county” tells me that it is a US-centric study, which is primarily South of us in latitude and thus actually stands to benefit from a slight shift in the time.
However, in the depths of winter, we get sunlight from 10 am to 3 pm (ish) in my home province’s chosen timezone. No 1 hour shift is going to give us “evening” sunlight. Shifting it by 1 hour at most gives us sun until 4 pm. Which means the people working until 4:30 or 5 (or later) are still going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark.
So I will reiterate, at this latitude, changing is not as meaningful. Changing the clocks in spring and fall is actively the most harmful option. So even if the “not-best” option is chosen, can we at least get away from the worst one? Please?
Both are an improvement, but why settle for a half mesure. If you’re going through the “trouble” of changing how we go about this, might as well take the best one.
Sunrise at 10am is horrible. We should not compromise on that because people want light in the evening.
Well I have no personal skin in the game since I’m from SK and we haven’t changed our clocks in decades. I don’t even know if we’re on standard or daylight time.
But all I can say to “not taking half measures” is “don’t let perfect be the enemy of progress.”
Just because it’s not the immediate best doesn’t mean you can’t take a step in the right direction.
I never understood this argument. At this latitude, the 1 hour difference between standard and daylight time is kind of irrelevant. The sun still rises really late and sets really early in the winter. I go to work in the dark, and it’s dark by quitting time. Shifting it by 1 hour is not going to change that in any meaningful capacity.
I live in Saskatchewan. We don’t change our clocks. Do I care whether we are on standard or daylight time? No. Once you stop changing the clocks, it ceases to matter which version of time you run on. You get used to it and move on with life.
In BC we have a short winter day, so adding an hour of daylight at the end when many are done work is helpful. And summer the sun rises at 4:30 on daylight time so stick to Daylight time is good, moving to standard time would menq sunrise at 3:30 am. Yuck
I feel like this article sums it up quickly and draws on most of the research into this topic:
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/09/daylight-saving-time.html
Yes, I’ve seen these studies before. But even in this article:
(Emphasis mine)
Even just stopping the swapping is beneficial. And honestly, this study being “county by county” tells me that it is a US-centric study, which is primarily South of us in latitude and thus actually stands to benefit from a slight shift in the time.
However, in the depths of winter, we get sunlight from 10 am to 3 pm (ish) in my home province’s chosen timezone. No 1 hour shift is going to give us “evening” sunlight. Shifting it by 1 hour at most gives us sun until 4 pm. Which means the people working until 4:30 or 5 (or later) are still going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark.
So I will reiterate, at this latitude, changing is not as meaningful. Changing the clocks in spring and fall is actively the most harmful option. So even if the “not-best” option is chosen, can we at least get away from the worst one? Please?
Both are an improvement, but why settle for a half mesure. If you’re going through the “trouble” of changing how we go about this, might as well take the best one.
Sunrise at 10am is horrible. We should not compromise on that because people want light in the evening.
Well I have no personal skin in the game since I’m from SK and we haven’t changed our clocks in decades. I don’t even know if we’re on standard or daylight time.
But all I can say to “not taking half measures” is “don’t let perfect be the enemy of progress.”
Just because it’s not the immediate best doesn’t mean you can’t take a step in the right direction.