Semi Annual Daylight Savings Time Thread

[dhkendall]

@Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

There was yet another article in the Toronto Star the other day, and I have to say this is really starting to get on my nerves - every time someone mentions Saskatchewan and DST, it makes the prairie dogs sound like a bunch of hillbillies.

Take a look at the map - the time zone goes right through the middle of the province because Saskatchewan didn’t exist when Stanford Fleming drew up the zones. So, given the choice between having Yorkton and North Battleford in two different zones, or picking one that really doesn’t work for the other half of the province, they stay with standard time year round. In a province where agriculture is such a central feature to the culture and the economy, it is the sensible solution. Nothing crazy about it. Hell, in my opinion, they’re the sensible ones; it’s the rest of the country that adopts delusional behaviour about time for 7 months of the year.

Newfoundland found that it too was right between time zones (the meridian line that separates the two goes through St. John’s or something like that) so what did they do? Gave themselves a distinct time zone with 1/2 hour difference. (Granted Saskatchewan’s is a “de facto” distinct time zone, but they’re still technically Central). Looking at the map, it still would make sense to have all of SK be on same time as Alberta (exception of Creighton, of course, being on MB time).

I stand by my “crazies” comment. Especially since I’m a Bomber fan. (my mother was born in SK and I still have several relatives there, it’s a province near and dear to me, so the slurs are more of a friendly teasing. Absolutely no offense meant.)

I do fully agree with the “rest of the country being delusional” comment, I voted “no” on the poll because I still don’t see a need for DST, and do wish we’d all adopt SK’s system.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

There was yet another article in the Toronto Star the other day, and I have to say this is really starting to get on my nerves - every time someone mentions Saskatchewan and DST, it makes the prairie dogs sound like a bunch of hillbillies.

Take a look at the map - the time zone goes right through the middle of the province because Saskatchewan didn’t exist when Stanford Fleming drew up the zones. So, given the choice between having Yorkton and North Battleford in two different zones, or picking one that really doesn’t work for the other half of the province, they stay with standard time year round. In a province where agriculture is such a central feature to the culture and the economy, it is the sensible solution. Nothing crazy about it. Hell, in my opinion, they’re the sensible ones; it’s the rest of the country that adopts delusional behaviour about time for 7 months of the year.

That’s where I spent my first 21 or so years - and now my last 23 have been spent changing the clocks (and hating it because it’s so useless).

And no, the reason people in Saskatchewan don’t change the clocks is not because they can’t figure out how to do it. :mad:

[_mostly_Harmless]

@LSLGuy

So you are also ready to have the date change in the middle of the day in most of the western hemisphere? Because that goes along with abolishing timezones. if everybody everywhere on Earth uses UTC then the date changes in the early afternoon on the US west coast and around dinner time on the US east coast.

Most folks might find that kind of hard to adjust to. For exmple:

When your haircut appointment is at 3pm on Tuesday, does that mean the day which was Tuesday when you woke up and is really Wednesday by 3pm, or the day which is Tuesday in the afternoon but was Monday when you woke up?

And thinking in dates instead of days of the week doesn’t help. An appointment on the 15th could be either the 15th in the morning which is the 16th in the afternoon, or is the 15th in the afternoon which was the 14th in the morning.

Anyone who deals with UTC time now is already used to this issue. But looking at Americans’ whole-hearted embrace of metrification after 40 years (i.e. NOT!), I doubt your *no timezones *idea is gonna get much traction.

In all honesty I hadn’t considered that aspect of what I said. I’ll chew on that for a while and see if my opinion holds.

[ZenBeam]

Maybe you could have two time zones, one for the East hemisphere, and one for the West. Twelve hours apart, so you’d even know what time it was in the other zone; the same, just am instead of pm, or vice versa.