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Can't see the 'ShareThis' icon? Reload your page view by pressing Shift and clicking Refresh at the same time.Even without John on the air, the time-change debate came back this week.
My colleague David Kirton raised it yesterday. As usual, I heard a number of people labouring under some misconceptions. So, here are some facts to consider for the debate.
1. Saskatchewan people are not afraid of change. That is a canard.
2. We are on Daylight Saving Time year round.
3. Saskatchewan does not straddle two time zones; we are not divided by a time zone. Fact: Saskatchewan is the only prairie province that is entirely within one time zone. The Mountain Time Zone is centred in Saskatchewan and extends into Manitoba and Alberta. (Info here)
4. Despite that, we are on Central Standard Time, which is one hour ahead of the time zone we live in.
5. Daylight Saving Time does not save energy. In fact, a study in Indiana, where half of the state recently adopted DST, found that energy consumption actually went up! Turns out that rather than using that extra hour to be outdoors, more folks were plopping on the couch, turning on the tv and cranking up the air conditioning.
So....have the debate about changing the clocks. But don’t let anyone tell you that we don’t get Daylight Saving Time. Sunset in Saskatoon on Nov.3, was 5:35, a full half hour later than Calgary at 5:07. Vancouver saw the sun set almost an hour earlier, at 4:48.
Were we to move another hour forward in Saskatchewan, not only would it be light till 11PM in high summer, but our mornings would be much darker in October and March. Last Friday, the sun rose at 8:01 in Saskatoon. That would’ve been 9AM if we moved an extra hour forward.
Just some facts to consider.
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daylight savings time
Give me one economic benefit to the sun coming up at 4:00AM in june? East half of the province really gets the shaft when it comes to the evening sun
You don''t get it Murray
The debate is NOT about are we on Daylight Savings or are we not on Daylight Savings.
The debate SHOULD be about do we move our clocks ahead and back like 90 some odd percent of the world.
Businesswise, if someone is dealing with Saskatchewan, they should be able to know we are 3 hours ahead of them or 12 hours behind them. Not have to debate are we 3 or 4 hours ahead or 12-13 hours...... Similiarily, when we deal wiith people outside of Saskatchewan, wouldn't it be easier to to know we are always the same time difference?
This theory has proven itself on a smaller scale in Lloydminster and Creighton where the buck the Sask non time change rule and change times with Manitoba and Alberta.
DST or not, consistancy with outside markets will help the province in the future.
Its only a matter of an hour
I would like someone to show me some concrete numbers on how changing our time would affect people doing business in Saskatchewan. Will changing our time simply for the convenience of others result in more business being done in this province? I doubt it. By the same token, maybe the whole country should be on the same time zone so all those brilliant businesspeople out there aren't confused.
Show me how changing time will "help this province in the future".
If time is just a
If time is just a convenience to others why do we keep time at all? Time is just a relative thing that tells us all when to go to work and when to pick up the kids from school. Two hundred million people or so manage to change there clocks twice a year while they sleep and don't seem to worse for the wear. What is the environmental advantage to turning on the lights at 10pm and sleeping for 3 hours while the sun is shining or maybe we all should start work an hour earlier from March until Nov. I think it be easier to change via the clock than to change all our hours of operation
Remember a time when women couldn't sit in a bar. In those times people too thought they were forward thinking. Imagine an African American president
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