To the editor,
Re: Time change isn’t wanted, Letters, March 5.
Many people have written about keeping our clocks locked in one time zone all year.
I believe these people are in error. In Canada, with our northern plus-49 degree parallel location, residents must understand that the further north you live, the better it is to keep two time zones juggled.
Most of us have visited Mexico, Hawaii or the southern United States. The sun sets about 7 p.m. most days and rises about the same time year round. Understandably, nobody really cares about time changes in these latitudes.
Now move your life to Prince George, Prince Rupert or Edmonton. Staying in daylight savings time, for example, means your kids are walking to school in the dark in December. It is still dusk at recess.
Here in Nanaimo and in other locations along the border, there is a less-profound difference, but a difference nonetheless.To me, it is always a pleasure, twice a year, to appreciate sunshine later in the day, clearly marking the beginning of spring. Just as it is, in the autumn, when the time change marks the real late autumn and putting the lights up for Christmas season.
I think these two days a year are to be appreciated and celebrated.
Bill Jones, Nanaimo
To the editor,
As a working parent, I was always happily anxious to reach March time change. When we work most of us are not home until 5 or 6 o’clock, therefore, the extra hour of daylight gives us an opportunity to go to a child’s baseball or soccer game, or play with our children before bedtime.
Yes, I have worked in a professional environment that gave me the opportunity to be with my family in daylight.
The darkness at 6-7 p.m. is not a family-friendly time, it is when it is 9 p.m.
Marjorie Pelton-Gislason, Nanaimo
To the editor,
I just love this time of year, when we are all about ready to turn our clocks one hour ahead. As they say, spring ahead.
Most people all year long are just waiting to see more light in a day. The start of a glorious spring. Are you ready? I sure am to see longer days and to enjoy more nature during this wonderful time of the year.
Linda Smith, Nanaimo
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