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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Literally nobody in North America is going to their hockey stadium for a 9pm puck drop. Yet. Under permanent DST, that'll be the Flames and Oilers for much of the season. Sure, mostly Saturday nights, but 8pm is plenty late enough.
Of course higher latitude have later sunrises, but they are generally more equally straddling solar noon. Calgary is already off-centred from our mathematical time zone, and permanent DST will further exaggerate it by another hour. For me it isn't the amount of daylight, as we can't change that, but the increased imbalance or mornings vs. evenings. If we love our summer nights, just keep the status quo. No need to rob the hour from winter mornings.
But I think that we are generally in agreement.
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So just drop the puck at 7pm local time? Winnipeg, Chicago and others seem to make that work just fine? Like those kinds of issues are the easiest to deal with to me. The NHL can worry about whether they have late games to play a double-header every week.