This is not the time.

A brief break from board-game puffery: my province is going to permanent daylight savings time.

This is exactly the wrong thing to do.

We should stop moving the clock back and forth, yes, but we need to stay on permanent STANDARD time, not daylight time.

There is a large body of research to support this.

In 2019 when we had the badly worded “referendum” about this (the third option of going to permanent standard time was not even a choice!) any number of scientists wrote to the government and appeared on media pointing out the unhealthy effects of this, but all people could think about is oh boy, I’ll have an extra hour of daylight forever.

I remember watching one of these bits on CBC and a sleep researcher from SFU was “debating” this with some soccer mom from Kelowna who just kept repeating, “but this is the way we all voted” and that she needed another hour of day so young Trevor or whatever his name was could work on his kicking skills.

But I guess we’ve all resolved not to listen to experts for now….

While we’re at it, why don’t we just go to one national time zone? When you’re on “All Canada Time” your body won’t be much more discombobulated than it will be on permanent daylight time, permanently 1-2 hours out of whack with the sun (instead of 0-1 hour).