Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dhu on Gate Newsgroups: ab.general,ab.politics,can.general,can.politics Subject: Re: Time for Alberta to go Permanent mountain Standard Time Followup-To: can.politics Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:53:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <10o720j$22j2$6@gallifrey.nk.ca> <10q15ol$24530$5@dont-email.me> <10q1s2v$2rfn$11@gallifrey.nk.ca> <10q1sba$2dc4q$1@dont-email.me> <10q262h$rq5$2@gallifrey.nk.ca> <10q2psc$2ljtl$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1e61bfa0dd33e2908c8aa18213ebedc1"; logging-data="100580"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Pk5Aw+VNVzNPB9jvn6cb3+bZi1BZRwTA=" User-Agent: Pan/0.153 (Mariupol; c5405f5) Cancel-Lock: sha1:J8i5Vhfuv8HC0CMbpAz32bhRg7Y= Xref: csiph.com ab.general:7032 ab.politics:20613 can.general:22146 can.politics:672823 On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:14:04 -0700, Alan wrote: > On 2026-03-25 19:36, The Doctor wrote: >> In article <10q1sba$2dc4q$1@dont-email.me>, Alan wrote: >>> On 2026-03-25 16:45, The Doctor wrote: >>>> In article <10q15ol$24530$5@dont-email.me>, Alan wrote: >>>>> On 2026-03-03 08:24, The Doctor wrote: >>>>>> SO BC and the Yukon wants their populations to be jetlagged zombies. >>>>>> >>>>>> We said no to permanent DST in Alberta >>>>>> and that referendum must be honoured. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sign >>>>>> >>>>> >>> https://www.change.org/p/the-voters-of-alberta-make-the-alberta-canada-time-zone-permanent-mountain-standard-time-zone?recruiter=5018939&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&recruited_by_id=8c88060d-1250-4636-951a-2606169a41e1 >>>>>> >>>>>> And tell the premier to honour the refendum >>>>>> that said no to permanent DST in Alberta! >>>>> >>>>> There's no magic that makes DST deleterious to health, doofus. >>>>> >>>>> They are just numbers and changing the number we use to represent a time >>>>> of day does NOTHING. >>>> >>>> WRong you are. >>> >>> Really? >>> >>> Why? >>> >>> Does my body know if the clock reads 8am or 9am? >> >> Your body follows the sun. high noon is no 1 p.m. ! > > Your body doesn't KNOW how to read a clock. > > And given that the natural variability of daylight hours in different > latitudes of the world is FAR greater than the one hour shift imposed by > DST, the body is clearly capable of adjusting to waking up while it is > darker than the clock would suggest. You _stupid machine_: a "one hour shift" never happens in the analog reality humans physically inhabit: it takes 6 MONTHS to go from "high noon to midnight" even in the Arctic. Dhu -- Je suis Canadien: Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais, C'est une esp`ece de sauvage. Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco! *A mari ad mari ad mari* Duncan Patton a Campbell