Re: Time for Alberta to go Permanent mountain Standard Time
Dhu on Gate <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | ab.general,ab.politics,can.general,can.politics |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
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. Dhu -- Je suis Canadien: Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais, C'est une esp`ece de sauvage. Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco! *A mari ad mari ad mari* Duncan Patton a Campbell