Daylight savings. Spring ahead an hour
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3 weeks early but here to stay for 6 months. And like the Firefighters say a good time to check your smoke alarms. BB
Daylight Savings Time came into effect three weeks earlier as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in the USA. I wonder if the Canadian government also felt that it would save energy, or if they made the change as well just to suck up to and accommodate the Americans.
I wonder how long it will take for this new energy saving to cover the cost of all the added IT work that this has caused.
It's been another Y2K but only with less lead in time.
The cost to me......not being able to go to the eval camp on sunday.......I'm on call and have a number of systems that I have to check sunday am. .........thank you George W.
It's been another Y2K but only with less lead in time.
The cost to me......not being able to go to the eval camp on sunday.......I'm on call and have a number of systems that I have to check sunday am. .........thank you George W.
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Canada followed the USA's lead here, good idea to keep the EST, MST and PST timezone in effect across NA. The drag is as Shi Zi Mi suggests, another Y2K worry in the making.Robbie wrote:Daylight Savings Time came into effect three weeks earlier as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in the USA. I wonder if the Canadian government also felt that it would save energy, or if they made the change as well just to suck up to and accommodate the Americans.
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According to the experts the saving will be negligible but we'll see.
I would like the daylight savings time to become our year round time, no need to adjust back for the fall/winter seasons IMO.TheLionKing wrote:According to the experts the saving will be negligible but we'll see.
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dittoRammer wrote:I would like the daylight savings time to become our year round time, no need to adjust back for the fall/winter seasons IMO.TheLionKing wrote:According to the experts the saving will be negligible but we'll see.
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Just as long as an essential appendage still springs in to action for Beth, it's all good Dale.Blue In BC wrote:At my age there is no " spring ahead " for anything. It's more of a slow bounce.
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They put it back in the fall so that parents aren't sending their kids to school in the pitch dark. Even under standard time, sunrise is about 8am in Vancouver near winter solstice. It would be more like 9am if we kept DST all year round. The UK has experimented with year round DST in the past to negative reaction.Rammer wrote:I would like the daylight savings time to become our year round time, no need to adjust back for the fall/winter seasons IMO.TheLionKing wrote:According to the experts the saving will be negligible but we'll see.
I remember in Newfoundland in 1988, we experimented with Double Daylight Saving Time -- put the clock ahead TWO hours on the first weekend of April until the end of October -- so we were 2.5 hrs ahead of EDT, 5.5 hrs ahead of PDT and only 2.5 hrs behind Greenwich! It wasn't popular mainly for the above reason. At the start and end of the DDST period, sunrise wasn't until about 8:30am, and that was in St. John's -- the easternmost part of the time zone, where the sunrise is the earliest.
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