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Originally Posted by mrkajz44
Just to put this in perspective for those voting Monday...
If we go permanent DST, today is the last day the sun would rise before 8:00am until March 10. Yes, March. This change is not good for our biological clock.
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Civil twilight is a more meaningful measure - the point when artificial lighting is not necessary...usually about 30 mins earlier than sunrise, with 'nautical twilight' another ~ 40 mins earlier meaning some light in the sky.
Ultimately it shouldn't matter that much which time we end up on...individually and societally we can try to tweak our schedules at the extreme dates to best suit ourselves. The time changes are like taking a sledgehammer to a housefly.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Maybe we should just leave it the hell alone instead of making changes like this independently of the rest of North America. We don't operate in a vacuum, and who the hell wants to be like Saskatchewan?
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Several jurisdictions have passed laws saying "we're on board to change as soon as xyz change, too (or congress approves)"...it just needs to reach a point of critical mass, and it seems we are getting pretty close. Pretty sure BC, California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming are among them.
https://www.almanac.com/content/stop...ht-saving-time
EU is/was planning to abolish it too, but apparently COVID may have delayed it. Argentina, Russia, and Turkey have already killed it.