On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 at 08:59, Peter Krefting via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
It's of course not a real problem in summer, then I don't care if sunrise is at 4:00 or 3:00, because I will be asleep by then
I did notice something interesting during yesterday's press conference in British Columbia. A reporter asked why a "permanent daylight time" approach was being taken instead of "permanent standard time". Premier David Eby alluded to the short winter daylight hours at local latitudes: "For British Columbians, having that extra hour of leisure time with the sun at the end of the day…is a very significant difference for their health. It might be different in the United States as you get further south, but for us in British Columbia, when you're already waking up in the dark and taking your kids to school in the dark, getting an extra hour of sunlight where you're still in the dark when you're getting up and taking your kids to school doesn't make as much sense as it does to get that extra hour at the end of the day." Eby's position is that the surveys showed British Columbians prefer "to have that extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day, to have a little bit more time with the sun out with their families at the end of a working day," adding that "the 'shoulder seasons' for hiking and biking and outdoor activities" which are concentrated in the after-work hours would be functionally extended by a month on either end, saying it's "a very important thing in British Columbia." Vancouver gets 8 hours, 11 minutes of daylight at the winter solstice, while Prince Rupert gets 7 hours, 19 minutes. So the opposite attitude can certainly be applied to the winter: "I don't care if sunrise is at 8:30 or 9:30, because either way I'm waking up in the dark." -- Tim Parenti