Canada May Consider Daylight Time Change

I wonder if we want to trade with Japan, will we need to change our clocks again, or how about Europe? This is totally unnecessary, and will have more impact on people's daily lives, like children going to school in the dark, then it will on business. If someone wants to do business with another time zone, they get up early or stay up late, it is quite simple, but this is just another way of having us follow our new regime!

---
If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Ontario to have say on DST change<br />
<br />
Ontario residents will have their say in whether the province decides to add two more months of daylight saving time. <br />
<br />
The government wants to canvass opinions from residents and various sectors across the province to see what they think of extending daylight saving time - an idea being contemplated by the United States. Ontarians can e-mail the government to let politicians know what they think of the idea. <br />
<br />
The e-mail address is daylightsaving(at)jus.gov.on.ca. <br />
<br />
Attorney General Michael Bryant said the province will do what's right for Ontario and not simply fall in line with the United States. <br />
<br />
"We'll monitor what the United States does closely," Bryant said before a cabinet meeting Thursday. <br />
<br />
"Our government's going to do what's in Ontarians' interests, which does not necessarily mean automatically following in lockstep with the United States government's change to daylight saving time." <br />
<br />
U.S. officials reached an agreement late Thursday to extend daylight time, but not to the extent the House of Representatives approved in April. <br />
<br />
House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight saving time a week earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by three weeks to the first Sunday in November. The House bill would have added a month in the spring and another in the fall. <br />
<a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/07/20/1139954-cp.html">http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/07/20/1139954-cp.html</a><br />
<br />
<p>---<br>These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters

Ms. Costen, just because the U.S. and Canadian business sector is generally behind something doesn't automatically make it an evil consipiracy. This DST proposal actually sounds like a reasonable idea, given that a stated purpose is to reduce energy consumption.

Meanwhile, the Patriot Act was renewed and our politicians are fear-mongering the subway riders in Montreal and Toronto. Pick your battles!

I think there are better ways to reduce energy consumption than destroying people's circadian cycles even further. one hour twice a year is more than enough already.

---
Every time you complain about the moderators, god kills a kitten.

I always wished that they`d just leave it alone. Who cares if it`s still dark at 8 0`clock in the morning. I hate it when it gets dark at 5 o`clock at night in the winter. But that`s just me.

---
Dave Ruston

To anon who says, 'Ms. Costen, just because the U.S. and Canadian business sector is generally behind something doesn't automatically make it an evil consipiracy. This DST proposal actually sounds like a reasonable idea, given that a stated purpose is to reduce energy consumption'

I might argue that if they are behind it, then we should be suspicious; however that isn't my beef! Reducing energy consumption where? Not in Canada? If the U.S. wants to do something to conserve energy, there are many ways they could, but Canada changing our clocks, will not aid in energy consumption. It will however place children in danger, by having them walking to school in the dark, it also as Jesse mentioned, throws everybodies biological clocks out of whack. If we want to make decisions which help Canadians, then I would say good, but we aren't, instead we are like puppies following the leader!

---
If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Dim-witted proposal for daylight time<br />
By Alex Beam, Globe Columnist | July 26, 2005<br />
<br />
Ed Markey is such a silly-billy. If he didn't exist, someone would have to invent him.<br />
<br />
Back in April, our Seventh District congressman issued a press release announcing his cosponsorship of a daylight savings bill ''to shorten the winter, lengthen the summer, and save energy." Claiming his legislation would ''bring on the spring" -- funny, I thought someone else did that -- he added that ''daylight savings just brings a smile to everybody's faces."<br />
<br />
Yes, it sure does. Before I critique the ''thinking" backstopping Markey's proposal to add eight weeks of DST to the calendar, let's examine the smiling faces that have failed to line up behind this untimely flight of lunacy:<br />
<br />
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops opposes Markey's bill because it presents ''a great danger to the schoolchildren who will be forced to travel to school during the pre-dawn darkness."<br />
<br />
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism has written a letter pointing out that some Jewish prayers cannot be recited before sunrise. Under DST, the Sequel, that could come as late as 8:45 in some parts of the United States, when many are already at work. Echoing arguments made by at least two other Jewish groups, the USCJ director of public policy, Mark Waldman, told The Washington Post that he did not believe the legislation intentionally levied this hardship, but that it was something he wished the committee had considered.<br />
<br />
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, whose members include software giants Oracle and Yahoo!, as well as universities like MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley, wants to delay implementation of DST, the Long Version, until it can figure out whether or not the broadened time change will wreak havoc with the calendars embedded in the nation's computers.<br />
<br />
The Edison Electric Institute, which represents 200 private utilities, is lobbying against the bill because it might throw electric metering systems out of whack.<br />
<br />
In a public letter last week, James May, the president of the Air Transport Association, said US airlines stood to lose $147 million annually because of disruption to the schedules caused by DST-Extended Play.<br />
<br />
It gets worse; there is plenty of opposition in Canada, the tail wagged by the big US economic dog. Prime Minister Paul Martin's spokesman opined last week: ''While most people -- excepting vampires -- favor more daylight, there are serious issues of concern to the aviation and other industries."<br />
<br />
So . . . Catholics, Jews, nerds, utilities, airlines, the National Parent-Teachers Association, farmers, and Canadians all oppose the bill. Who's for it?<br />
<br />
Good question! Markey supports it because he claims it will save 100,000 barrels of oil a day, reduce crime (!), lower traffic fatalities (!!), and increase economic activity. The energy-savings claims for DST, Part Deux, have been likened to cheating at Solitaire, or cutting an inch from the top of a blanket and adding it to the bottom, to make the blanket longer. In other words, maybe fewer lights are on, but people are consuming energy in other ways.<br />
<br />
Markey's office notes that the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (hoping to sell more badminton nets?), the National Association of Convenience Stores (sell more Slurpees?), and the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness (thinking there will be ''less" twilight) have lined up behind his proposal. In an interview, the congressman points out that the United States added an hour of DST in 1986. ''You don't hear any complaints today, but back then we had pretty much the same people saying how disruptive it would be."<br />
<br />
Last week, the House and Senate energy bill conferees scaled back DST-XXL from eight weeks to four weeks. Instead of being implemented in November, it would become law in March 2007. If the Department of Energy can't find any energy savings, ''The Congress retains the right to revert the Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the Department of Energy study is complete."<br />
<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/26/dim_witted_proposal_for_daylight_time/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News">http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/26/dim_witted_proposal_for_daylight_time/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Living+%2F+Arts+News</a><br />
<p>---<br>These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters

Do liberals have to change everything? AHHHHHHHHHHHHH. How stupid.

---
The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat