BC got rid of Daylight Savings

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209

by mostelato • 4 months ago

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WalterGR• 4 months ago

Previously, 561 comments: "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223620

Related, with 45 comments: "19 [US] States approved permanent daylight saving time" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290037

tobadzistsini• 4 months ago

BC didn't get rid of it. Now it's permanent.

cwillu• 4 months ago

They got rid of the biannual clock change, which is obviously what they're talking about.

kixiQu• 4 months ago

"Daylight Saving Time" refers to adjusting the time in a way that noon does not try to track solar noon for a timezone in order to shift daylight later in the clock-day.

dghlsakjg2• 4 months ago

That’s what the actual news release and title say if you read the article you are commenting on.

Not sure why the title got changed for this post.

nicwolff• 4 months ago

It's "Daylight Saving", not "Savings".

jahnu• 4 months ago

“‘Daylight saving time’ is also sometimes called ‘daylight saving,’ ‘daylight savings,’ ‘daylight savings time,’ or ‘daylight time.’

So, listen to your heart.”

https://bsky.app/profile/merriam-webster.com/post/3mgkh6eycs...

iberator• 4 months ago

What's BC ?!

cbsks• 4 months ago

British Columbia, Canada

dghlsakjg2• 4 months ago

Click through to the article you are commenting on, it’s very clear. It is a link to the official government site for British Columbia, a large province encompassing the entire pacific coast of Canada.

vincent-manis• 4 months ago

In the 1970s, I temporarily relocated from Vancouver to Boston. A few days after I arrived, someone said, “After work, I'm going to take the T [subway] to BC.” I was awed by the concept of a continental mass-transit system, but puzzled. It turns out that in the Massachusetts Bay area, BC is Boston College.

Context is king.

nitroedge• 4 months ago

Its where it rains all the time and we are north of Seattle (our fellow grey weather neighbors)

schrectacular• 4 months ago

Long, long ago when humans rode dinosaurs to work.

mmmlinux• 4 months ago

My understanding is that most people want to stop switching, but its split on which side to stay on.

zadikian• 4 months ago

I'd rather have it switch than do permanent DST. It's not good to wake up in total darkness if you can avoid it. Best would just be permanent standard time.

verall3• 4 months ago

I'd rather have it switch than do permanent standard time. It's not good to end your workday in total darkness if you can avoid it. It's nice to wake up in early darkness and see the sun rise. Best would be permanent daylight time.

Affric2• 4 months ago

Yeah, being awoken by an alarm in pure darkness is grim which, longitude 15 solar noon minutes west of where our timezone is set and at our latitude is very possible in winter.

With pure standard time we would never have sunset before 5 pm but daylight savings puts half the year's 7 am before the sun has risen, and if you are an early riser as I have become, before the dawn breaks.

It also gives us four months where it's very hard to get children to sleep after 8 pm and for me it's even hard to start winding down.

I think summer time is really non-optimal for most purposes, changing the clocks sucks, and most individuals that work do so for too many hours a day. It's a local maximum in terms of how we socially manage time and people mistake optimising our society towards it to be optimising towards a global maximum.

Imagine if there was no DST and someone said "let's change every clock...", I would think it's a classic XY problem.

qball• 4 months ago

Ignoring, of course, the fact you're already waking up in total darkness in Standard time.

At least with perma-DST you at least get daylight once you leave work; with perma-Standard you don't get that either.

mixmastamyk• 4 months ago

The problem time is winter, when daylight is scarce. So whatever is best for winter should prevail. Summer doesn’t matter except for weirdos who want others to wake up earlier.

_spduchamp• 4 months ago

Here is the petition for Canada to standardise on standard time.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Peti...

Health research supports staying with standard time. Staying with daylight savings may be good for business, but businesses can adjust, while our bodies can't.

madcaptenor• 4 months ago

I predict this will end at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time one morning next December, when the sun still hasn't risen in Vancouver.

BC got rid of Daylight Savings

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