Goodbye to “high noon”, “mid-day” and accurate sundials. Stupid to legislate an idiotic idea like “daylight savings” into permanence. But typical for morons to not think things through.
At least stopping the unhealthy, dangerous practice of time change is a step in the right direction.
To be fair, high noon is rarely 12:00 even without DST. West Saskatchewan and the Yukon have quite a big mismatch with solar time. The idea behind Sandford Fleming’s innovation was that some mismatch is acceptable if it means you don’t get a different time zone in every stop along the railway.
Personally, I think this system is not really the best for the modern globalized age. I would prefer something like Swatch Internet Time or even just using UTC exclusively everywhere. It’s just a social construct that the sun rises at what we label with numbers between 5 and 9 (usually), and we start working at what’s labelled 9. You could just as easily (more easily in my opinion) shift those labels depending on geography, instead of using the same labels and deciding on an offset. But it will never happen because of inertia. Look how difficult it is to get rid of a dumb idea like the biannual clock shift (not to say DST) because of inertia.
I don’t give a flying fuck if we stay on DST or ST, just stop the seasonal switches. High noon is already inaccurate the further you move from the “center” of a timezone.
Yeah, I agree with both of your opinions. We could just go back to the “real” time for the time zone, but the zone still means inaccuracies. Also, the whole concept of a clock is man made and can be whatever we want. Even more so, we can have lunch whenever we want, too - so it doesn’t even matter when 12pm is, you can still have lunch when the sun is highest.
In the end we just have to agree on any fixed point to count from. BUT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE COSMICALLY DEFINED 😭
I with it was permanent standard time, I am very sad they decided on year-round daylight.
It blows me away that we change the clock to meet corporate time tables vs having flexible work days.
And not like it makes a damn difference anyways. It’s gonna be extra dark outside regardless of if we fuck with everyone’s schedule or not. One hour doesn’t make a significant difference in the amount of light we get in a day when we still just work for 8-9 hours of the day inside of a building.
Exactly. People tend to blame the winter darkness on the clock change but even if we didn’t change our clocks, winter only gives us about 9 hours of sunlight during the shortest days of winter.
When you have less than 8 hours od daylight, it’s going to be dark for both commutes (assuming a commute)
Yeah like, whoopidee doo, it’s light out during the morning while I’m off to work, I sure do get to enjoy that glimpse of daylight during my commute! Gonna be dark after I’m done regardless of the extra hour.
Cool, maybe the rest of Canada will follow?
Yukon and Saskatchewan already don’t change their clocks.
I work in BC and Yukon and I always have to check if we are on the same time or and hour difference because I can never remember.
Going forward BC and Yukon will always be on the same time.
Ontario also has this law in place just waiting for Quebec and New York to make the move too.
I think to remember that Québec has the same law and we are all just waiting for New York…
Oh if that’s that case we should ignore NY and just do it.
We don’t give a fuck what the US does anymore.
I’m hoping they follow BC and decide they don’t need to wait for the US.
Please yes.
Holy crap YES!!!
The legeslation has been in place for years, but we held off because we didn’t want to be out of sync with Washington, Oregon, and California.
From https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209:
Recent actions from the U.S. have shifted how B.C. approaches decisions that merit alignment, including on time zones.
Thanks Trump :D
Trump changing space-time
Very good! Changing the clock twice a year is an insanity people accept as normal, and that shouldn’t be the case. Please let Ontario be next (I know of weak sauce Bill 214).
As a sysadmin or programmer its a nightmare.
I’d like Ontario to follow>
I’m so excited for this. Even working from home I hate changing time cause it still messes with my sleep schedule and my cats feeding schedule.
My cats also get confused, and then they get pushy about it.
This Saskatchewan resident welcomes BC to the more sane way of life!
Come on, Oregon, do the thing.
oh no, an update to tzdata coming
Servers that don’t update = minor Y2K. But only for small websites/businesses/servers and that won’t affect anything important. Who doesn’t update their server for months, knowing this change is coming, right?
It should be fun!
It does happen every few months.
We are indeed living in interesting times…
Nice! The world has been so shit for years now, I didn’t expect this kind of bottom-of-the-list legislation to pass until like 2056. Glad someone cares enough to sweat the small stuff. I hope the other provinces follow suit. Last I heard, Ontario was in a deadlock because NY State didn’t want to budge on it, but you know, elbows up!
About damn time!
…or is it about an hour from damn time? I can never remember.
As a Saskatchewanian, I am so happy for BC!
Finally!
