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Originally Posted by czechm8
Thanks for the heads up. I agree that the change is no longer relevant for society. Unfortunately the survey is flawed - there should be three options:
Options provided in the public engagement survey:
1) No change, keep switching clocks twice a year.
2) Adopt year-round daylight savings time ("summer hours")
Option not provided in the survey:
3) Adopt year-round standard time ("winter hours")
The only options on the Alberta engagement page are (1) and (2). Option (2) is the same one that BC is considering. However, most biologists and psychologists that study the topic agree that more morning sun is healthier. In short, their studies find that waking up around the same time as sunrise is best/healthiest, and therefore option (3) should be the one we adopt.
Unfortunately, with a flawed survey like this, many of the results of people that want to get rid of changing clocks twice/year will just pick option 2 (no more changing!), but not really understand that there's a difference between option 2 & 3.
Here's a good article on the subject:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opin...time-all-year/
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Option 3 would be the wrong choice based on your comments re morning sun is healthier and that waking up at sunrise is the best choice. Do you know what time sunrise is on the 21st of Jun in Calgary? 0521 is the answer and that answer is based on DST. If we stayed on ST then sunrise would be 0421. Who wants 0421 to be their wake up time? Crickets....
So that being the case, you would be sleeping during the healthiest the of the day. Therefore moving the time (sun) into the most productive part of the day is the right thing to do. Standard time all year is the least favourable option and maybe that is why it is not included as an option.