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

Nice move Bush.... Idiot!

[saskboy]

This time change is such a boondoggle. Here's some facts:

- The amount of oil predicted to be saved over the several weeks involved in the time shift, is less than all of the oil the USA uses in a SINGLE day.

- There are going to be millions of VCRs and other hard coded devices designed to change to the old DST law, meaning many will auto-adjust to the wrong time.

- Airlines and other businesses that depend on time are going to have to reprogram many things, and thus this will impact their bottom line. [Is this a good thing when so many are going bankrupt?]

- If we legislated that vehicles must achieve twice the MPG rating they have today, then we'd use approximately half as much oil. That's a savings of 50% every single day. [Maybe if George thought about that every...single...day, just like he thinks about the Iraq War every..single..Day, then we wouldn't have to put up and deal with this stupid time change!]

Re:This is really stupid

[turnipsatemybaby]

I know this was modded funny, but it's not entirely a joke. There's a growing sentiment that Canada is being pushed around by the States. The US refusal to hand over $5 billion in duties that, as declared by the top NAFTA panel, it illegally took. Getting Canada to extradite citizens to the US when they have broken no Canadian laws, Deity Of Your Choice knows what else. This is just the latest in a long line of American bullshit being forced upon Canada.

What I find truly funny is how quick the US is to throw blame on Canada for *everything*. Canada encourages terrorits. Canada caused the The Great Blackout (which was a bald-faced lie, and I don't recall any appologies given later, either)

It really bothers me that the US just *expects* everyone will roll over and do whatever the US says, to happily take abuse and mud slung from the US. And then when the US doesn't get it's way, like a 2 year old it throws temper tantrum and decimates other countries.

And the American people wonder why no one else in the world likes them...

The parent qualifies as "Insightful"?

[Bueller_007]

So, basically, you're saying the same thing as Bush.
Bush: "The American way of life is not negotiable."
You: "Our use of standard time should not be negotiable."

According to many studies, switching to DST saves fuel. (I'm not going to debate whether or not that is actually true, because you basically admitted that it was.) You're saying we SHOULDN'T try to save fuel by changing to DST? Just because you don't want to give up the idea that "time is absolute"? Now THAT is stubborn.

Of course we should try to increase our fuel economy, BUT if we can use even less fuel by changing to DST, why is that a bad thing?

Oil is concrete and limited. Time is abstract (and infinite?) Which is more important to you?