Ontario to Match U.S. DST Change

Devastator writes "CBC is reporting that Ontario will be the first Canadian province to change daylight savings rules to reflect the changes happening in the U.S in 2007. Attorney General Michael Bryant says 'the province's economy was the deciding factor and that if Ontario isn't on the same time as the United States, it will be hurt financially.'"

Comments

Sleeping with an Elephant

[dso]

This seems to be a typical Canada/US relation. It's like the old saying goes:

"When you sleep with an elephant, if it rolls, you roll."

Why not UTC?

[vertinox]

It would make things simple and just go by UTC. So when we mean we are going to have a meeting in New York at 15:00, we mean we are going to have a meeting in California at 15:00.

You make the time different based on what you are and work around the time... No the other way around. I wake up at 13:00 and you can wake up at 18:00 whever you may be. It would save the trouble of having to talk with other people in other time zones and always manually adjust the time.

Excellent

[BeerMilkshake]

With Ontario making the announcement, other provinces will follow, including the one I live in.

Why is this great news? Because of all the software maintenance effort that will be required to upgrade the systems to comply. The additional workload will mean more money and maybe even a recovery in the job market after the tech bubble a few years back.

This is the one thing GWB has done that will benefit me. Thanks George!

Re:This is really stupid

[1u3hr]

Could someone explain how "Arkansas" is apparently pronounced "Arkinsaw"? I assumed they were two different states till recently.

Re:This is really stupid

[NutscrapeSucks]

> we have no problems trading with them.

I dunno, I used to work for a company that was HQ'd in Arizona, with their flat-earth policy towards DST, we would routinely miss phone conferences. (The crappy scheduling system that only showed original timezones didn't help.) Cow-orks tell horror stories about working at companies located around Indiana. At least we will all be able to easily figure out what time it is in Ontario.

Bring me back night sky!

[YGingras]

The summer night is already so short. By artificially moving sun set later you have to be pretty damn motivated if you want to look at the stars. But looking at the stars is something free, something that doesn't require energy and something that anyone will enjoy if they have an opportunity to see them. Instead, we only see the sun in the evening. So every one just sit inside, with the lights on, just because they see better that way, event if the sun is still high and they watch TV because they have nothing better to do.

Wanna save energy? Why don't you shutdown or at least dim all those fscking lamp posts after the rush hour? Do we really need to light up the streets so bright that at in any large enough city (and you know its not that large) the night sky looks like dawn all night long. Just try it, stop reading /. and go outside. Mars is in opposition and we are in the peak of the Orionids meteor shower. There is quite a show going on and its not too cold yet to stay hours laying on the ground.

Standard vs Daylight Savings Time?

[duncf]

Anyone else find it a bit unusual that "Standard Time" will now only be observed for 3 months of the year, while "Daylight Savings Time" will be observed for 9 months?

Maybe they should change the names, so we have "Standard Time" in the summer... and "Night Savings Time" in the winter?