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I lived in Saskatoon for two years. In the summer the sun came up way too early. If you didn't have a heavy curtain or forgot to pull the blinds the night before, it sucked.  
 
The November switch is not really a problem because gaining an hour doesn't cause increased tiredness. The issue is the spring. The number one thing we could do is to move March Break to the week AFTER the time change. Kids would be less affected because they would have the week off to adjust, and there would be less traffic on the roads contributing to accidents. The Provincial Ex and the Keystone would need some lead time to move the Winter Fair to that week, meaning that the Winter Fair would actually take place in the Winter.  
 
Additionally, the March change should happen on Friday evening at 6:00pm, after the standard 9-5 workday, but before most evening activities like sporting events, concerts, and people going out to bars. Moving it to Friday evening gives an extra day and a half psychologically to adjust (You're already on "new time" Friday night before bed, than waiting for Sunday morning after waking.  
 
Edited by PuddleJumper, 2019-11-02 11:25:52

An aside...  
 
If the rest of the country moves to getting rid of the time change, my hope would be that Ontario picks standard time. That way, if we went with daylight time it would be the same time here as in Toronto. Dealing with head offices in Ontario would be easier.

We need DST all year because we need the extra sunlight in the evening to be able to do anything in the winter without it getting dark too soon. In the morning it doesn't matter really whether it gets light earlier because it's still dark at 7 or 8 am irregardless. I've kept this short, but standard time all year round would just be the worse.

did change, that would be the best way. Though if we stay DST, the Sun won't rise till 9:30 am in December.

couple things to consider IMO. First, human activity be it work or travel is safer and more efficient in the daylight. Keeping DST year round has people (including school kids) doing a morning commute in the dark for 3 months. To have a 630 sunset when it’s -30 ... not worth it IMO.  
Keeping Standard year round moves a couple months of 5:30-6:00 am sunrises to 4:30 to 5 am sunrises. Very few people will enjoy that extra hour in the morning like they would in the evening evening golfing, playing baseball or fishing. Or operating an nail gun roofing their house.  
There is a reason we have 2 time changes... it makes sense.  
And to the people who have trouble adjusting... what do you do if you have to get up early for something or stay up late for a night or two? There isn’t much difference.

I agree, especially in summer.  
After school activities could get curtailed by darkness.  
Same with your after supper golf game, sitting around the campfire, doing yard work or working in the field.  
The extra hour in the evening is very beneficial, that it over rides the short evening.  
As for the morning time, it is not as near as important as the evening time gained.

The only other practical thing I can think to add to this discussion is the following:  
 
If a time change is considered worth doing, why not implement it like dairy farmers do, at 5 minutes per day? Cell phones and other important systems update the time automatically, and that degree of change would have no impact on the human body. And even if a person forgot one day, the change would not throw anyone's schedule out of whack.

Was a pleasure to walk my dog at 7am in broad daylight this morning. I vote to keep the time changes!

I'm ok with the status quo. It would be nice to have the extra light in the evening in winter (year-round daylight saving time). I sleep with no cover on my window and find it easier to get up with some light outside than with total darkness. Because of that, I don't mind the light on the morning side in winter. It just sucks getting up and driving to work in the dark.  
If I would have to change, I would probably pick permanent daylight saving (summer time) all year long to get those extra hours in the evening all year.  
It would probably make my mornings more miserable, so the status quo is just fine. Alternatively, we could keep a permanent time, and every workplace vote if they want to work 7-4, 8-5, 9-6 ect.

We could simply offset our time by a half-hour. Pick the midpoint and call it a day. Yes, it would make it harder to calculate times in other provinces since we are no longer dealing with whole numbers but people would adjust.  
 
Or just switch to an adjusted time that would keep solar noon at 12 pm year-round. very complicated and all clocks would have to be connected to a central server to prevent drift.

Solar noon doesn't drift.  
 
Otherwise, the half hour compromise seems like a viable suggestion. I think it would cause too much confusion for business to get on board though.

It’s not hard to turn your clocks back one hour or forward. It’s awesome getting extra light in the summer in the evenings and DST is something to look forward to in the spring! People like to bitch and complain about things just to bitch and complain. People don’t know what they’ve got until it’s gone and then they’ll bitch and complain about something else then. Leave the time change!! In the summer our kids and teens and adults are out playing ball late because they can! Summers are a lot of fun as we can fit so much more in with a longer day! So stop whining about such a little thing like changing a clock. If your battery died in your clock you’d have to change that. Are people going to bitch about that too and expect someone to do something about it? To all you people out there that whine and snivel about having to change your clocks only 2 times in one year. That’s right - you do this twice in 365 days - look around you. There’s a lot of other things out there that are so much more important then having our politicians spend a lot of time and money using taxpayers money for this stupid bill. There’s a million other things more important to fight about like how the Liberal government seems to want to help the world by giving away all of our hard earned money before helping its own citizens. Now there’s something to bitch about!

and widely. Between Winnipeg and Brandon today there was a 12 minute difference. Even through the month it varies. In December for Brandon it goes from 12:23pm on Dec. 1 to 12:42pm on Dec. 31.

I've thought of this in past years also, although I would propose 4 leaps forward over 4 weeks in the spring. Granted, your way would get it done in 12 days though.  
 
The November time change is fine as is, as gaining the hour all at once is actually nice.