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Re:British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round da... by tavavex on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:21AM (#47229234)
It's weird, my opinion is the exact opposite from yours, but for the same reasons. When it's the morning, I haven't had the time to get tired yet. So I don't care yet, I don't require the sunlight at that time of the day. And it's always a better feeling when there's only a bit of darkness left before sunrise, when the alternative is feeling like the day was wasted as you step outside and it's already night out. Depending on your timing, you may also see the sunrise while commuting to work, which I find enjoyable.

In the evening I'm tired, so I want the extra sunlight to cancel that out a bit, and I want it so I have more opportunities to do things after work. No one is going to do anything for fun in the morning, so giving the light to that time period is wasting it. I want it after work, so I can go somewhere, enjoy the extra warmth, just be anywhere besides home and work.

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Re:British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round da... by Acinyx on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @04:30AM (#47230183)
Same here at 52 degrees, the evenings feel so much more useful when the sun is out than in winter when it is dark, an hour extra sun would be massive.

So I am wondering what the percentages for these preferences are, is t 50-50 split or is one dominant? You'll piss off part of the population any chocie you make nayway, but at least in the European (non-representative) polls they found 80% don't want the twice-yearly switch, so it would be progress anyway?

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Re:British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round da... by Defenestresque on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:42AM (#47231008)
According to the article at least, it's 93% pro/7% against in BC, though I haven't had a chance to look up how the question was phrased or n.
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Re:British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round da... by bfmalky on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:37AM (#47234959)
You are very lucky to have a strong circadian rhythm that doesn't require light in the morning then. Not all of us work that way. If there is no light in the morning I find it very hard to get up and function. Where I live, if we adopted permanent summer time the sun wouldn't rise until 9:45 in the dead of winter. I couldn't handle that many hours of complete darkness at the start of the day.
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