Christopher ([info]christopher1984) wrote,
2005-07-25 12:29:00
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http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/07/25/1146604-sun.html

Daylight saving plan sparks flood of e-mails

CP

TORONTO -- The Ontario government has been flooded with e-mails from residents speaking out on extending daylight saving time, the parliamentary assistant to Ontario's attorney general said yesterday.

The province is considering a plan similar to one being contemplated in the United States.

"The major sentiment seems to be, so far from a lot of e-mail traffic, is for economic reasons, we've got to be in sync," said David Zimmer, parliamentary assistant to Attorney General Michael Bryant.

Officials in the United States were considering an agreement reached Thursday between negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Under the agreement, daylight saving time would start three weeks earlier in March and be extended by one week in November.

The current daylight saving time structure in both Canada and the United States runs from April through October.



Hmmm that seems so weird. Daylight savings time just "was", it never occured to me that a government would be able to vote to change it. Crazyness.

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Anonymous

July 25 2005, 18:52:20 UTC 6 years ago

The government can pretty much do whatever it wants. If the Canadian government suddenly decided that homosexuality warranted the death penalty, then they could bring that in.

Or they could say that anyone under 6 feet tall has to move to Nunavut.

Pretty much whatever they feel like.

[info]rydie

July 25 2005, 20:45:42 UTC 6 years ago

I was thinking the same thing!! I think it's so weird that they have say over something like that! I figured it'd be unchangeable! It'd be like the government implementing another day to the week or something!!! ....weird.

[info]eluamosnailo

July 25 2005, 21:16:57 UTC 6 years ago

I'm pretty sure it was governments that created day light savings time.

[info]scottystripped

July 26 2005, 02:18:28 UTC 6 years ago

I vaguely remember talking about this in astronomy (I needed one science credit) in my last year at WLU. It seems to me the dates for changing the clocks were dictated by something celestial. I would have to do some research to be sure of that but if that's the case it would seem to be a dumb thing to just arbitrarily change them...

[info]scottystripped

July 26 2005, 02:23:02 UTC 6 years ago

Nope...guess I made that up.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html

Anonymous

July 26 2005, 04:31:04 UTC 6 years ago

Yup, there's nothing "natural" about DST. It's totally government made.

And so is a 7-day week. lol... we could easily change it to 8 or 6 or whatever.

[info]christopher1984

July 26 2005, 05:28:24 UTC 6 years ago

could you imagine trying to learn to insert a new day into your week? Crazy.

[info]christopher1984

July 26 2005, 05:31:12 UTC 6 years ago

I always thought it was related to farming, and when they needed the most daylight. Guess I was wrong too.
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