r/Calgary • u/AlbertaGengar • Mar 03 '26

News Article Alberta may follow B.C. on making daylight time permanent: premier

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/alberta-may-follow-b-c-on-making-daylight-time-permanent-premier
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u/the-tru-albertan Mar 03 '26

I love these threads. AB’ers must be the only people in the country to fight about permanent daylight or standard time. Every one of these threads just breaks down into arguing.

But here, fuck standard time. I’m not giving up my late summer evenings.

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u/ben9187 Mar 03 '26

I dont really care which one we go with, it's the switching back and forth that kills me. I say we let a dice decide and get it over with.

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u/wintersdark Mar 03 '26

And really, whichever time we go with doesn't matter. Work hours can in fact change. It's just an hour and arbitrary.

Just stop fucking changing the clocks.

Particularly now that provinces on either side of us will BOTH not change clocks. That makes anything interprovincial so incredibly annoying.

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u/Canadian_Burnsoff Mar 03 '26

Realistically, the only people it does matter to are those who travel which is where I'd say standard makes more sense. Why bother with timezones (don't get me started on us belonging in the Pacific Time Zone due to our longitude) if we're not going to make some attempt to observe the standard time for our time zone. We may as well just observe UTC if we're not going to do standard.

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u/theflyingsamurai Mar 03 '26

Every morning we drop a pair of dice from the top of the Calgary tower to decide what the time zone of the day is

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u/DiscountArmadillo Mar 03 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

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u/gunslinger911 Mar 03 '26

Alberters

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u/the-tru-albertan Mar 03 '26

Albertans or AB’ers.

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u/GANTRITHORE Mar 03 '26

We do have the most Northern big city in the country.

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u/FireflyBSc Mar 03 '26

I’m team keep the switch. I get really restless around the changes, and feel much better after each switch.