Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

For those who put their clocks time forward in spring , nows time to ...

I really wish they'd leave the time alone. Now I'll be awake an extra hour in the am until spring! I just don't adapt to this one.

Same here, ramblings have been heard from the west for years, Manitoba doesn't change and we aren't really saving anything, still the same amount of daylight.
Lets see how long it takes for the government to smarten up.
I can see the future of each province going their way and we will have different time in every province, will probably require creation of "ministry of daylight & time"

Ahh I have to work an extra hour, don't see the point of switching the time.

Yes, I totally agree that daylight saving time should be scrapped. There is no advantage to having it. It causes more problems for everyone. I don't know of anyone who likes it.

kenya wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:55 am

Ahh I have to work an extra hour, don't see the point of switching the time.

There isn't any point. Never was.
When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’

All very valid points IMO...but still, turn your clocks back...lol

No no no! Scrap standard time! I hate when it's dark at 4:30 pm, they should leave it alone because in the morning it's dark wether you get up at 5, 6 or 7 during winter so we are traveling in the dark anyway. At least we would have some light in the evening, what good is sunlight when most of us are inside at work.

so here's a few amazing facts: the time change used to be before Halloween, but the Yanks changed it to after Hallow's eve (and of course we followed suit). why did that happen? the candy companies lobbied the George Bush Whitehouse to change the date. if kids are out trick or treating and it gets dark they go home. So now they sell 20% more candy than they used to (damn genius!)

the week following time change is the week of the year with the LEAST car accidents (accounting for traffic and weather) as the bit more sleep does folks good. but the spring "time back" week is the worst for the opposite reasons.

this from the book Sleep Thieves by Prof. Stanley Coren
he also has written books about dogs

more points: the Chernobyl andThree Mile Island Nuclear accidents, and Exxon Valdez oil spills all happened on the night shift. most highway fatalities occur on Sunday Nights. people who work shift work have shorter life spans. Most medical mistakes happen at night (gee, young residence docs at the emergency room work 24 (or more) hours straight). being sleep deprived has the same negative effect on driving as being drunk. places where people take an afternoon nap (or Siesta) have healthier folks with less incidences of depression. most people have a sleep "debt" of 8 hours. when tests are done and clocks are taken away (i.e. students doing research in the arctic summer) folks sleep 10 hour nights for two weeks (to sleep off the debt) and then sleep 8 hours with much greater productivity. and I can go on.....

get some sleep.