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Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
Crazy idea if the US adopts permanent DST... what if Canada adopted (the more sensible option, IMO) permanent standard time? Sure, Toronto and New York would be an hour off from each other, but would it be the end of the world? European financial centres like London and Frankfurt have managed fine being an hour off.
And while Calgary wouldn't line up with Denver and Vegas anymore, we'd be aligned with Houston, which wouldn't be such a bad thing. And we would have much more latitude-appropriate sunrises on permanent standard time, and no time changes twice a year since that seems to be an increasing hardship for everyone. Win win?
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No, you have those backwards. If we stayed on Standard time year-round, while the US went to permanent Daylight time, we'd be on the same clock as the west coast, an hour behind Denver, 2 hours behind Chicago and Texas, and 3 hours behind the east coast.
If we were on the same time as Texas, we'd be on super-daylight time and even more out-of-step with the natural position of the sun. Sunrise in the winter would be after 10am.