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I'm Canadian and for me DST is pure hell. Imagine not being able to see the sun either in the morning while you jog before work, or in the evening while you wal

I'm Canadian and for me DST is pure hell. Imagine not being able to see the sun either in the morning while you jog before work, or in the evening while you walk home. That is my December, and that is in Toronto, it is even worse in Ottawa. I have one Turkish grandparent and the rest north-western european so it's not even that bad for me compared with say a Jamaican, but combined with the interruption to my internal clock (which is normally very accurate) it really pisses me off.

mjn 13y ago
December is during the regular, non-DST period, though. DST is March-October. So if you don't like the time of sunrise/sunset in December, it can't be DST's fault! One solution could be to standardize in the other direction: instead of abolishing DST, go to year-round DST, i.e. year-round offset of ~1hr between solar time and clock time.
- 3pt14159 13y ago
  Ah, you are correct! I keep forgetting that because I think the summer time standard is way better! Who needs sunrise earlier than 6 am?
- bcj 13y ago
  This is what Saskatchewan did when they got rid of DST.
grecy 13y ago
Oh, come on. You choose to live so far from the Equator, short days are a consequence of that. Come on up here to the Yukon if you want to see what it's all about.