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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by CrazyStat on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:10AM (#21427192)
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.
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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by throw0101a on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:26AM (#21427257)
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.

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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by CrazyStat on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:34AM (#21427289)
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.

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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by gerbilly on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:19AM (#21433699)
> 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.

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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by chimeracoder on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:18AM (#21427223)
> 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).

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Re:Year-round daylight time will cause ‘permanent jet lag,’ ... by CrazyStat on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:33AM (#21427283)
That would be 9am with the proposed change. Quite a difference between 7:15 and 9.
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