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Winter daylight hours (DST/clock shifting)

What is your preference for winter daylight hours?

  • a) 8:50 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.

    Votes: 10 76.9%
  • b) 7:50 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • c) 7:50 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., but also continue to move our clocks twice a year

    Votes: 1 7.7%

  • Total voters
    13

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This relates to the thread regarding the current, and some say pointless, outdated, or even disruptive practice of shifting our clocks back and forth each March and November.
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/time-zones-and-daylight-savings.20183/page-4

Rounding off the sunrise and sunset times to the nearest 5 minutes, according to TimeAndDate.com, Toronto gets a little over 8 hours and 55 minutes of daylight on the 21st of December, and a little over 15 hours and 25 minutes on June 21st.

Staying all year on the setting we use during the summer would result in winter daylight hours of approximately:
8:50 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., then in late June 5:35 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Staying all year on our present 'winter' setting would have winter daylight hours of approximately:
7:50 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., then in late June 4:35 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
 
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This relates to the thread regarding the current, and some say pointless, outdated, or even disruptive practice of shifting our clocks back and forth each March and November.
https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/time-zones-and-daylight-savings.20183/page-4

Rounding off the sunrise and sunset times to the nearest 5 minutes, according to TimeAndDate.com, Toronto gets a little over 8 hours and 55 minutes of daylight on the 21st of December, and a little over 15 hours and 25 minutes on June 21st.

Staying all year on the setting we use during the summer would result in winter daylight hours of approximately:
8:50 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., then in late June 5:35 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Staying all year on our present 'winter' setting would have winter daylight hours of approximately:
7:50 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., then in late June 4:35 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Good summary! Get it done.
 
British Columbia stopping the time change (after this weekend):

Most British Columbians will change their clocks for the last time this Sunday.

B.C. is permanently adopting daylight time, making its "spring forward" on March 8 the last time change, Premier David Eby announced Monday.

"We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time — and then never again," Eby said.
 

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