Re: Time for Alberta to go Permanent mountain Standard Time

[email protected] (The Doctor) Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:27:18 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups can.politics,can.general,ab.general,ab.politics,edm.general
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Alan  <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2026-04-17 07:53, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:14:04 -0700, Alan wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2026-03-25 19:36, The Doctor wrote:
>>>> In article <[email protected]>, Alan  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> On 2026-03-25 16:45, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>> In article <[email protected]>, Alan  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2026-03-03 08:24, The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>>>> SO BC and the Yukon wants their populations to be jetlagged zombies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We said no to permanent DST in Alberta
>>>>>>>> and that referendum must be honoured.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sign
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>https://www.change.org/p/the-voters-of-alberta-make-the-alberta-canada-time-zone-permanent-mountain-standard-time-zone?recruiter=5018939&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&recruited_by_id=8c88060d-1250-4636-951a-2606169a41e1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And tell the premier to honour the refendum
>>>>>>>> that said no to permanent DST in Alberta!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There's no magic that makes DST deleterious to health, doofus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They are just numbers and changing the number we use to represent a time
>>>>>>> of day does NOTHING.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WRong you are.
>>>>>
>>>>> Really?
>>>>>
>>>>> Why?
>>>>>
>>>>> Does my body know if the clock reads 8am or 9am?
>>>>
>>>> Your body follows the sun.  high noon is no 1 p.m. !
>>>
>>> Your body doesn't KNOW how to read a clock.
>>>
>>> And given that the natural variability of daylight hours in different
>>> latitudes of the world is FAR greater than the one hour shift imposed by
>>> DST, the body is clearly capable of adjusting to waking up while it is
>>> darker than the clock would suggest.
>> 
>> You _stupid machine_: a "one hour shift" never happens in the analog reality
>> humans physically inhabit: it takes 6 MONTHS to go from "high noon to
>> midnight" even in the Arctic.
>The "shift" is only in which number we use to describe a particular time 
>of day, doofus.

Do some Cricardian research.
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