The article is about Canada, far from the equator, where sunrise times are substantially later in the winter months. Singapore is not a relevant case for the experts' concern.

Yes, but "Canada" is big, and most of the people live on the southern portion of it.

The southern Ontario wine region is at the same latitude as France's wine region. Scotland is at the same latitude as northern Quebec.

Compare locations on a globe.

France, Scotland. Neither of those are Singapore last time I checked.

By all means make comparisons to France and Scotland, I don't have any issues with that.

> most of the people live on the southern portion of it.

Yeah and the 'south of Canada' is at the 49th parallel more or less.

Singapore is at 1°N.

> The article is about Canada, far from the equator, where sunrise times are substantially later in the winter months.

Not really that much later. On the winter solstice, sunrise in Vancouver is around 8am, which is less than an hour after Singapore (Singapore's sunrise can be as late as 7:15am).

That would be 9am with the proposed change. Quite a difference between 7:15 and 9.

> Somehow, this hasn't caused the country to fall into collapse, the way these quoted sleep experts make it sound.

Maybe if they got better sleep they wouldn't draft laws that get people flogged for putting their shoes on the wrong feet or being nude in their own apartment.

These problems get more pronounced as you travel away from the equator. In places where sun rises at 9:00 and sets at 16:00 for months every year, these little changes are a big deal.

> In places where sun rises at 9:00 and sets at 16:00 for months every year

This article is not about those places. It's about British Columbia, where sunrise on the winter solstice is less than an hour later than Singapore's typical sunrise.

No.

Sunrise at 7am seems fine to me. But at my place for example it would mean sunrise as late as 9 or 10am at the shortest day of the year. This is compelling to me at least.