In the UK one reason for daylight savings was it was shown that darkness was very highly correlated with car accidents involving children walking to school in the dark. Anybody who drives around schools in Dec/Jan in Calgary knows how hard it can be to see children crossing the road.
As it is we only have 3-4 weeks of mornings when it's still dark out when I take my kids to school. For those in BC, the hour change will make a lot more dark mornings (Maybe 10 weeks?)
Hopefully we don't see an increase in accidents involving children walking to school in BC from this.
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