@canada Residents of #canada, would you be in favour of your province or territory abolishing annual clock changes and moving to a consistent, year round time?

If yes, what would you prefer: year round daylight savings time (an extra hour of sunlight in the evening) or standard time (an extra hour of sunlight in the morning)?

I live in Saskatchewan, so I already don’t change my clocks at all and I can say with certainty that it is better this way! Please stop changing your clocks!

I found out that Saskatchewan is on permanent Daylight time (more evening sun) which is, by most studies, the ā€˜worse’ option. However, it is still better than changing the clocks and once you stop the flip-flop, it is so much better.

@FlareHeart if it’s the worse option then I wonder why everywhere keeps going for it (BC and the Yukon too). My guess is that it’s partially for economic reasons. Most people are out and about in the evening, so by allowing for an extra hour of sunlight in the evening you open the window of time when people will engage in economic activities. This could have indirect health benefits through increased employment or something, who knows.
I’m not sure. I know that due to our position and lack of sunlight, most Canadians are deficient in vitamin D, so I supplement for that anyway. But I love not having to change my clocks. One hour’s shift of what little sunlight we get in the winter doesn’t matter IMO. Just stop flip-flopping!
Oh, the horror of changing a clock…

Oh, the horror of poorer mental health, increased car accidents and heart attacks…

psychologytoday.com/…/how-daylight-saving-time-af…

How Daylight Saving Time Affects Well-Being and Health

Why 'springing forward' often makes us feel like we're 'falling back.'

Psychology Today

Ooo.psychology today , that’s almost science.

Like most psychology studies, they misuse stats to generate a conclusion they already made before the study. Psychology is a joke, epidemiology is a joke, but together the make the Reece’s peanut butter of shit science.

What if all those event were just due to weather changes coincident with fall and spring time changes?

Example, from the link you didn’t read,

ā€œAn analysis in the European Journal of Public Health from 2024 showed no increase in suicide in Austria, Switzerland, and Sweden following the start of daylight saving time. However, data vary, and studies show that some subgroups, including patients with substance use disorders, may incur a 6.59 percent increase in suicide risk soon after the springtime change.ā€

A subgroup of a subgroup may have (that means not significant) an effect. Typical of garbage published around this.

I suggest you people find solutions to real problems in the world.

Heavy use of sarcasm, unironic use of ā€œyou peopleā€ when replying to a single person, and turning it all into whataboutism.

Bad faith arguments.

Not worth my time.