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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Many jurisdictions have passed laws saying "we'll do it when everyone else does it", but somebody has to be first
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No they don't. That's why you make an agreement that everyone will do it at the same time. It only makes sense if everyone is doing it at the same time.
If a place has enough clout, they can announce a change and force others to either follow suit or be out of sync. In the 80s, the Reagan Administration moved the start of DST from late April to early April and a short time later, Canada matched the change. In the early 2000s, the W. Bush Administration moved the start of DST from early April to early March and the end of DST from late October to early November and a short time later, Canada matched the change.
If California had announced they were going to stay on permanent daylight time, in defiance of US federal law, other states and provinces would probably follow suit because California has that clout. BC doesn't have the clout for others to follow them, so they're just going to be outliers like Arizona and Saskatchewan... and no one wants to be Arizona or Saskatchewan.
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It's almost like we could adjust institutional schedules to account for these extremes. Many workplaces have summer hours and general summer policies; it wouldn't be hard to tweak things a bit where necessary
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How is it better for individual businesses to make their own rules to adjust to the change rather than everyone making the change and then no one needs to make any other adjustments? That just makes things way more confusing as some people adjust their schedules and others don't.
For example, let's say you work for a Vancouver-based entertainment company and as such, you interact with other entertainment industry businesses in California. Right now, you sync your work schedule with your counterparts in L.A. and work until 5:00pm. When BC stays on permanent DST, your boss tells you that you need to continue to sync your schedule with California, so now you work until 6:00pm. Unfortunately, you take your kids to a daycare centre that closes at 6:00pm. The daycare centre doesn't do business with anyone outside of the lower mainland, so they're not going to adjust their schedule. Now, you have to find alternate arrangements, whereas if BC stayed in sync with the rest of the continent, everything would just keep on ticking the way it always has.