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Old 11-19-2019, 05:38 PM
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What stats per say? love to hear where they come from? Driving 30 plus years and never experienced anything different whether it is daylight or dark..LOL

Maybe the drivers forgot to turn their lights on an hour earlier in the morning?

Common sense would prevail here...
It is sleep deprivation not the darkness. Common sense should prevail but doesn’t appear to be. Lol
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:39 PM
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I sure as **** feel the extra early Mondays..no hooey here !
That sucks then..
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:42 PM
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That extra hour of sleep doesn’t do anything for me. Go to bed at 11 and
up a 6. Time change. Go to bed at 11 and up at 5. Only way to adjust is to go to bed same time
and let internal clock slowly get it right.
Lol..mankind..the author of confusion..just leave the bloody thing alone.
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:42 PM
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It is sleep deprivation not the darkness. Common sense should prevail but doesn’t appear to be. Lol
If one less an hour sleep one day out of 365 days/year effects your driving abilities, you should probably stop driving....

FYI, I am just having fun with you guys and mean no harm....I respect all opinions and everyone feels the time change in there own way...

GO FLAMES....
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:45 PM
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If one less an hour sleep one day out of 365 days/year effects your driving abilities, you should probably stop driving....
If your body take two weeks to adjust then it is 1 hour less per day for two weeks. That’s 14% less sleep for two weeks. Regardless I did not say it affects my ability. I said that’s the statistic.

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...7/app.20140100
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:47 PM
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If one less an hour sleep one day out of 365 days/year effects your driving abilities, you should probably stop driving....

FYI, I am just having fun with you guys and mean no harm....I respect all opinions and everyone feels the time change in there own way...

GO FLAMES....
How do you edit yet not say it was edited? More important things than DST. Lol. Was starting to worry about you for a bit there. Lol
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:49 PM
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How do you edit yet not say it was edited? More important things than DST. Lol. Was starting to worry about you for a bit there. Lol
I did not edit anything but finally removed my avatar after like 10 years...LOL
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:50 PM
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I did not edit anything but finally removed my avatar after like 10 years...LOL
Odd as I hit the quote button. Guess I just need better reading skills.
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:51 PM
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GO FLAMES
This explains a lot. Lol
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:51 PM
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I voted to get rid of the time change. Only reason is I moved to Alberta from Saskatchewan a little over a year ago. I lived 36 years in a no time change province and I turned out alright. At least I think I did.
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Old 11-19-2019, 05:53 PM
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"..After the War ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier
and went to bed earlier than people do today) that it was repealed in 1919.."
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Looks like it's not just some from this generation thinking this time thing is a daft concept..
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:02 PM
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This explains a lot. Lol
Settle down Andrew.....
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:02 PM
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Summer hours FTW! You can get stuff done after work. Driving in the dark regardless in the am so having the extra hour of light after work is by far the best option. Those who work outside. You already have lights so they run in the morning big deal.
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:10 PM
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I like to hunt after work...I hate losing that hour in the evening. I like getting up to hunt later too.

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Old 11-19-2019, 06:15 PM
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Truly hilarious some of the comments what a fun read
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:17 PM
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Truly hilarious some of the comments what a fun read
How.. Dare.. You

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Old 11-19-2019, 06:18 PM
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Greta: How.. Dare.. You


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Old 11-19-2019, 06:18 PM
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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.
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:19 PM
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Extra hour of daylight? Extra hour of sleep? Extra hour of hunting?
Guess legalizing cannabis is now taking affect.
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Old 11-19-2019, 07:54 PM
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I Get a kick out of some of the comments and how a 1 hr time change is so tramatic on some peoples lives, I worked in central asia for 14 years, rotational 28 days in and 28 days out and every 28 days my time change was either 12 hrs or 14 hrs depending if I was in Kyrgyzstan or in Mongolia, thats hard on the body, but 1 hr seriously.

Anyway if I had my choice we would stay on DST year round, love the long evenings in the summer
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Old 11-19-2019, 08:15 PM
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I Get a kick out of some of the comments and how a 1 hr time change is so tramatic on some peoples lives, I worked in central asia for 14 years, rotational 28 days in and 28 days out and every 28 days my time change was either 12 hrs or 14 hrs depending if I was in Kyrgyzstan or in Mongolia, thats hard on the body, but 1 hr seriously.

Anyway if I had my choice we would stay on DST year round, love the long evenings in the summer
That is the snowflake age right now...Complain about every little thing and we have our Government wasting time debate a useless issue when we have more national problems to contend with....How about the purple idiot we have here in Calgary looking at a 30-40KM limit in residential areas? Who is going to police these streets when they have people texting all the time....
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Old 11-19-2019, 08:26 PM
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Option D: Make up your own personal time zone! Then you can never be too early or too late.


In reality I chose to stick with the summer hours year round. Its ridiculous having darkness at 4:45
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Old 11-19-2019, 09:25 PM
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Just leave it the way it is, What’s the big deal, people travel to different time zones for vacation for a week or two weeks, you don’t hear them complain!
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Old 11-19-2019, 10:24 PM
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I would like to stay 1 hour behind sask and 1 hour ahead of B.C. for 365 days a year.

The old Native American said it best when explaining cutting off one end of a blanket.
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:38 PM
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Option D: Make up your own personal time zone! Then you can never be too early or too late.


In reality I chose to stick with the summer hours year round. Its ridiculous having darkness at 4:45
Is that trans-zoned?
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:44 PM
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Is that trans-zoned?
Nope, Chronologically fluid
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Old 11-19-2019, 11:55 PM
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Voted for year round DST.
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Old 11-20-2019, 12:07 AM
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As my preferred option wasn’t given as an option, I had to pass on this one.

I’d love to see the same interest in my say when it comes to other matters too, though:

1. Should we start following the constitution to the letter?
2. Should we start our own pension fund?
3. Should we allow for competition in health care?
4. Should we legislate the right to self defence?
Etc. Etc.
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Old 11-20-2019, 02:05 AM
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I voted to drop the clock changes. I think they are silly.

I also wrote to the goberment saying there should have been a third option.

I would prefer mountain standard time year round.

I hear the reasons people give for wanting the time change, It doesn't compute in my mind.

There is no reason why emplyers can't adapt to make the new system work better for thier emplyees. It may even be to thier advantage.

Most people are more productive early in the day. If moving the work shedual back an hour takes advantage of this, wouldn't it be smart of a business to do that?
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Old 11-20-2019, 02:17 AM
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Do you know what time sunrise is on the 21st of Jun in Calgary?
Hey don't try to convince him. The way it is he couldn't live up north.

Sunrise in High Level is at 3:30 am on June 21 and it sets at 10:00pm. Better still he couldn't work up here in December, we only have 6 1/2 hours of daylight on December 21

He'd be going to work in the dark and going home in the dark.

And that's part of why daylight svings time doesn't make sense. It only works for the southern half of the province. If it works at all.
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