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As far as I read that last change will happen this November.

https://web2.gov.mb.ca/bills/41-4/b205e.php

I will be letting our government reps know what I think of this stupid bill.

I sure hope so. I hate time change so much

This is just a bill proposed, it hasn't even had it's 2nd reading in legislature. It more than likely won't be passed to be in effect by this November.  
https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/business/billstatus.pdf

Pipe dream if this ever gets passed

So far as I know nothing has been passed in the Legislature.  
 
It's a stupid bill anyway. The only reason it marginally works in Sask is because they're so far west they should be mountain standard time. Dickinson, ND, which if you draw a line straight north from there is just east of Estevan, is where the mountain time zone starts. The Black Hills, which are just west of that same line.  
 
On the summer solstice, the sun sets in Winnipeg at 9:41PM, and 11 minutes later at 9:52PM here in Brandon. By August long the sun sets at 9:04PM in Winnipeg and 9:15PM here. So if we go to standard time year round, those times move up an hour. That means come August long weekend, the sun would set at 8:15PM. For comparison, on the summer solstice the sun sets at 9:15PM, and at 8:37PM on August long. Swift Current is 9:25PM and 8:48PM for those same dates.  
 
People enjoy being outside in the summertime, there's lots of softball/baseball leagues, soccer leagues, golf leagues etc. etc. still running at that time. The sun setting at 8:15PM simply wouldn't allow enough time to finish those activities.  
 
If we look at the end of April and start of May, when many outdoor activities begin, the sun currently sets around 8:50-9:00PM depending on the day. Moving that up an hour to 7:50-8:00PM means your kids sports events that start at 7:00PM have at absolute best an hour to finish up. Presuming perfectly clear skies as well! On a cloudy day who knows how much earlier it would get too dark to play outside.  
 
The age old argument from people in Saskatchewan is you're a fool to think cutting the top off a blanket and putting it on the bottom makes it longer. I think it's much more foolish to leave a blanket bunched up on your feet when you're cold.

If people don't like switching to and from daylight savings time, why don't we leave it on daylight savings year round? I would prefer this rather than Standard time year round. Like Trevor said, we need time for outdoor activities in the summer after school and work.  
Honestly, the switching never bothered me. Seems like people with nothing else to complain about choose this topic twice a year.  
I would vote to leave it as is, or choose daylight savings time year-round.  
Definitely not Standard Time year-round.

If we stay on Standard time all year how many people would be complaining when in the summer the sun is rising at 0415 rather than 0515. Just something else to think about. I would be all for staying on DST year round.

DST provides families with additional daylight for activities in the summer. It seems to me that a very small sacrifice of having to make a one-hour adjustment twice a year is worth the extra family time.

If the province was to make a switch I’d only support going to DST year round. Wouldn’t bother me at all to have the sun not up until mid morning in the winter. I drive to, and from work in the dark anyway.

I agree with leaving it at DST.  
 
I do hate time change a lot. It affects my work day a great deal for about 2 weeks each time. It’s not an easy transition and I dread it every year.

DST all year. Summer is too short as it is. To lose an hour of daylight in the summer evenings would suck.

businesses rely on on the longer evening hours. Going to CST year round will hurt many businesses and events during the summer. And yes, there are energy savings with DST. Keeping lights off for an extra hour will reduce costs for facilities with outdoor lighting, Andrews Field for example.  
 
The real only argument I hear about the switch is because people don't want to change their clocks. The proposed Bill reason is just BS as well.

It would be really tough to fit in a baseball, softball, football and many other outdoor activities in a 1 hour time frame of usable evening daylight. I play softball during the summer and even come August, we start fighting darkness with DST. And that's 7 innings.  
 
The times were based on the Sun location. That's how the times were set locally before the start of Standard Time. Thank the railroads and Sir  
Sandford Fleming for that.  
 
https://youtu.be/xiTgrhEqw5A  
 
Edited by Trevor B, 2019-03-06 17:04:14

that is the thread from last year.  
 
https://www.ebrandon.ca/messagethread.aspx?message_id=:1027364&cat_id=:13  
 
There's also no support for it in the Conservative government.  
https://chvnradio.com/news/conservative-government-will-not-support-time-change-bill  
 
Edited by Trevor B, 2019-03-06 17:42:04

If you have kids, you hate changing the clock. It is torture to switch their schedules twice a year, especially if they are under 2, just getting into a sleep schedule.  
 
Teachers and others who work with kids know the time change sucks because every child in the building is out of whack.  
 
My sister is a nurse... there are statistically more accidents after the time change, even heart attacks. It is hard on your body.  
 
Abolish. Abolish and don’t look back.

Fact is-you can abolish the time change by staying on daylight time from this weekend on. No need to change again after this one coming up-then you poor out of sorts souls can adjust this one last time and be done with it. I would be in favor of staying on daylight time all year round.

An idea for parents that say the time change is hard on their kids... switch bed-time by half an hour either way twice (or 20 minutes over 3 nights, etc) instead of doing the hour one night and it's way easier on them. Since the change happens on the weekend, start Friday night then you have until Sunday night to complete the switch if needed. We have a 2 year old and a 4 year old that both have extremely regimented sleep schedules and they seem to cope well doing it that way. We also travel a lot and switch time zones in the process - we use the gradual method and have never had a problem. Just a suggestion that's worked for our family.

This whole uproar about losing an hour’s sleep really doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t believe that there has never been a time when you stayed up an hour or to later or went out on a Saturday night and got home late. Maybe if you are like a lot of people, you just don’t sleep well and lose sleep on a regular basis. We all adjust. But apparently losing an hour’s sleep one Saturday night a year puts the whole world out of whack. I don’t believe that. I personally prefer the light at the end of the day. Don’t really need the daylight at 4am. Then everyone would be complaining that their kids are up at 4am.

I don’t really care one way or the other if it passes (has it passed? I was told this November will be our last clock change) but I do prefer the light at end of day. Dark at 5pm is just depressing haha. And like in previous discussions, I will be happy not to have to change the car clock LOL  
 
As for the effect it has on our bodies...I’ve worked with children almost my whole entire adult life and can honestly say that I’ve never noticed it to have a negative effect on them. Sure the first day or two some may be a bit off or tired but it’s only an hour difference...hardly anything to disrupt our lives for long

It has not passed any readings yet and is unlikely to pass at all.  
 
Just have to adjust your sleep schedule accordingly. Normally after a day or so your body is accustom and acts like there was no time change at all.

Thanks for the answer!! I’ve had 2 discussions this week about this and both times, we were all left confused as to whether it passed or not. Maybe I need smarter friends....hahaha, kidding.  
 
And I agree! It’s easy to prepare yourself for the time change

The MLA who wrote the bill is an Independent, so he's not with any of the party's. And the Conservative government has no intention of supporting it.

For the hour you give up twice a year you gain multiple hours of daylight you can enjoy in the summer.  
 
These days the simplest tasks are to much of a chore for people but if they would just stop and weigh the pros and cons of the situation they would see what we have now isn’t bad at all

So you are saying that no one or no ones children ever stay up an extra hour after their normally scheduled bed times throughout the rest of the year? Its the exact same thing.

it’s hard on the kids to have to deal with time change  
And you have cranky fussy toddlers for at least one week  
It’s not worth it  
Just keep the time the same as Saskatchewan

I agree 100%, and could not have said it better.

They can get away with it because the sun sets later there.  
 
Kids get sick, they don't want to sleep, etc, there are tons of other times throughout the year that kids loose an hour of regularly scheduled sleep.  
 
Time change is a very small price to pay to have a enjoyable evenings all summer long.  
 
Gladly this bill will never pass and everything will remain the same as it has always been.