Liberal MP says it’s time to stop the clock on daylight time

" ok, first cut the top off your blanket, sew it on to the bottom of your blanket.

Don't you love your new longer blanket?"

-Daylight savings advocates, probably.

Permanent Daylight Savings Time is the worst possible solution, so that is probably what they will go with.

I don't care about the time change but personally I prefer standard time.

I don't want to hear about a DST bill if it's a private member's bill from a back-bencher, but I'll bite.

[reads article]

Ugh.

Ending DST is such an easy and effortless political win that I don't know why it hasn't been done yet.

BC’s gov said they want to keep it in sync with the US even though Saskatchewan, Arizona and the Yukon do not perform the clock switch anymore.

now i know this is unpopular, but i just wanna get home from work and still have sunlight left to enjoy. make it permanent.

Start work earlier
- Like most people have a choice...
- Who the fuck wants to go to bed earlier?
- i wish

I dont care which we do. Just fucking pick one.

I prefer the time zone where the sun comes up later and sets later...
Most of us arent farmers anymore. We dont need sunrise at 5am
Would prefer to have a bit of light after work
Exactly. Just pick one and stick with it.
- Preferably the one where we gain an hour, not the one where we're robbed of an hour.

we have been having a variant of this headline appear ubiquitously every six months for decades.

we all know it’s a dumb idea, and we all agree that the science and data prove it, so why do we still have it?

well - because Ontario says we can’t change if New York doesn’t, and New York says we can’t change if Ontario doesn’t. it’s like a big unnecessary game of chrono-chicken. one of these regions needs to just go plowing straight ahead. the loser will absolutely end up copying the winner.

ps - Chrono Chicken would be an awesome band name.

Did New York say that? I thought Ontario and Quebec had passed bills that would end it as soon as NY also did it.
- passing bills that say we WILL do it, really doesn’t mean anything. it’s just political posturing.
  basically, this is the exact same as what i was saying : we won’t do it unless the other guy guys do it.
Ontario has a law on the books that will trigger once NY and QC get their shit together
- they sure do, but it’s really not the same as actually just doing instead of saying “we will do it if the other guy does it”
- This. You can look up the texts and documents from Parliament. We are waiting on the United States

Oh it did not even occur to me that it’s that time of the year again. The only times that this time change stuff has effected me in my adult life was one fall, I showed up to class an hour early once or I went to do some government work an hour early. I live in Saskatchewan and the showing up to class an hour early was because my phone decided I was not in Saskatchewan, after that mix up I have stayed on top of making sure my electronics do not believe I follow that silliness. Years later while I was working for Statistics Canada the stupid software had no idea how to handle Saskatchewan not following that silliness so I showed up to someones home and hour early.

Ya, I don't know why it took so many years for Sasktel not to change the time in a non-DST province.
I haven't been experienced it in a while, so I assume they've got it fixed.
- The university class would have been in the late 2000’s the Stats Canada computer would have been in the late 2010’s.

Just don't do permanent DST. It's bad for our health, it's bad for kids, and it doesn't make sense.

Just do proper solar time.

It's never been proper solar time from the beginning. The timezone boundaries are distorted to align with political boundaries, which messes up any alignment with solar time.
Times can be adjusted. The problem isn't the time at which things happen, it's that it cycles back and forth,
No thanks. I’m headed to work in the dark regardless if it’s DST or Standard. Let me at least see the sun on my way home.
- Oh, well, I mean, study after study has shown permanent daylight time is terrible for childrens' development, but if it's convenient for you I guess we should lol

Omg yes. 100000000000 times yes. I don't care which we keep (though I'd prefer the summer time if I had to choose, but I'll take any at this point).

I love DST. It lets me identify clueless whiners so quickly. If they whine about DST I have no time for someone because it’s literally the easiest thing in the world.

The time switch itself isn't that terrible. But sunset before 5pm can fuck right off.

This is the big problem government needs to deal with right now?

What a bold stance on a trivial matter in a time of multiple simultaneous existential crises.

So brave. So wise. This is peak Leadership.

Enough whataboutism, please. The Government has hundreds of MPs; it doesn't make sense for all of them to spend all their time on the same small subset of issues, even if they're critical. Like, it's literally impossible to have that many people at a literal table.
- Small subset of issues? Lol. We're in a damn near everything crisis.
  Edit: I propose the Daylight Savings Time working group work on fucking foodbanks, for one out of a billion more important issues.
  https://macleans.ca/society/why-are-canadas-food-banks-collapsing/
  Edit 2: Whataboutism is a disingenous technique to deride progress along certain lines. This isn't that. This is prioritization. Sad you can't tell the difference.
  Hungry people including children vs moving the clock an hr for half the year? There are so many critical issues right now.
Yeah. Imagine an MP discussing something their constituents almost all want. What a piece of shit.
- It's a question of priorities. This ain't one of them.
Instead of using your time to help solve important issues, you're commenting on Lemmy. You make me sick.
- Right back at'ya.