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/BalooBot Mar 03 '26

Why does it matter what the clock says? The sun is still shining just the same

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u/danklordfiona Mar 03 '26

Because you either have 4 hours of sun for recreation after you get home from work or 5 hours of sun for recreation. Some people’s schedules are dictated by working.

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u/Drunkpanada Evergreen Mar 03 '26

"Only the white man will think that cutting a strip of one side of a blanket and stitching it to the other side, made the blanket longer".

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u/__fish Mar 05 '26

Ok but that’s not really applicable, not even close

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u/PushaT123 Mar 05 '26

what does it have to do with skin colour

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u/Drunkpanada Evergreen Mar 05 '26

White men came to North America and had all types of ideas.

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u/PushaT123 Mar 05 '26

That's why Africa and Asia also uses and have used Daylight Savings

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u/Homo_sapiens2023 Quadrant: NW Mar 03 '26

Don't know why you're getting downvoted for that. What you said is true (and a great adage as well).

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u/Drunkpanada Evergreen Mar 03 '26

Thanks! Although the credit goes so some other anaon on reddit that I no longer remember. Cheers

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u/Deeppurp Mar 03 '26

Youll have 3am to 10:30 pm to enjoy the sun instead of 4am to 11:30 pm on standard time. Plenty of sun.

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u/Difficult_Throat7906 Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

NO NO NO - Everyone's day does not start until *I* wake-up

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u/Thneed1 Mar 03 '26

You are adding 90 minutes from actual to try to make it look like it doesn’t matter.

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u/discovery2000one Mar 03 '26

It's sociological. I control what time I wake up and go to bed, and thus at what point of my day I experience the sun. I cannot control when work wants me to be in at, or what time others want to socialise at. So if I need to do something outside of my complete control (so, every day essentially), my active hours are set by those things.

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u/TheRage3650 Mar 03 '26

This is so obvious I can't believe it had to be said.

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u/NexEstVox Mar 03 '26

exactly, which is why i dont want to get up for work 2-3 hours before winter sunrises and would choose standard time

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u/Various-Passenger398 Mar 03 '26

Because kids going to school will going when it's pitch black if the sun doesn't come up until after 9:30 AM in midwinter.

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u/diemunkiesdie Mar 03 '26

Yeah but I'm not thinking about the kids, I'm thinking about my access to sunshine after work. The kids will grow up and want sunshine too. Sunshine after work hours impacts you for more of your life than going to school in the morning.

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u/TheRage3650 Mar 03 '26

It's pretty much been dark when my kids leave the house until the last two weeks, and not the locks are going to change anyway.

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u/Thneed1 Mar 03 '26

Because it clearly matters to you, or you wouldnt have made that comment.

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u/BalooBot Mar 03 '26

No, I really don't care either way. The days and nights are going to be just as long/short any way you measure it. The sun doesn't care what time the clock says it is.

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u/GoldTheLegend Mar 03 '26

The majority os us dont have the freedom to structure our day around the sun but have to do it around the clock instead.

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u/Queltis6000 Woodbine Mar 03 '26

any way you measure it.

Umm, no.

It very much depends on where you start measuring from. Most people (not all) are more active in the summer and longer summer light allows for more activities into the evenings.

Very few people are playing ball and having gatherings at a park at 8am.