Daylight Savings, My Ass

Now is the time. It is beautiful outside. The sunsets are moving later into the evening. We can finish work and do things outside. Now is the time to get moving on fixing our winters. We need a time change.
When I lived on York University campus just outside of Toronto, I often thought that changing the campus' time zone to match Vancouver's would be best for all concerned. Any early call from the outside world (say parents) could be met with justified indignation.
"Mother, do you know what time it is?"
"It's 9 o'clock, you should be up."
"Not here it's not. It's six in the morning, mom. Can you call later, say, NOON your time?"
Morning classes would fit into your schedule. After last call downtown, you could take the subway back to campus and have a couple of hours before BC's last call.
While I never got anywhere with that gem, I think it is time for a change out west. I think we should spend the winters on Toronto's time.
Think about it.
Business calls would be easier for one - Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto would all be on the same time. But who cares? We all know that we don't live out here for business reasons, but for personal ones. So why give all the sunlight to the work day? Wouldn't you like to come home from work with a few hours of sun left?
We live a lot further north than Toronto and I think we should reflect that in our time zone. We vary more with the seasons - maybe not in temperature - but in daylight. We go from 16 hours in the peak of summer to 8 hours in the dead of winter. Actually 8 hours and 11 minutes. Which means that on Dec 23 rd this year, you'll be shopping in the dark. The sun will be coming up as you drive to work and before you get out that day, it will have set. In fact it will set at roughly quarter after four.
Let's not stand for it anymore. I want to see us fall forward. Let's fall forward two hours. Let's move to Toronto time. Wait a minute let's get ahead of Toronto. Let's fall forward three hours. We'll go to work in the dark - leave a message for someone out east asking them to call when they finally get to work - and then when we leave work it will still be light out and we'll have a few hours to enjoy the outdoors. Imagine.
So I say let's get on that right after we De-Elect Emerson.