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Originally Posted by CRussel
We voted to go to permanent DST here (by a HUGE margin) and the current government campaigned on it, but they're still dithering, waiting for California, Oregon and Washington to do it first. Sigh.
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Dithering? A majority of the respondents in the survey wanted BC to maintain alignment with Washington, Oregon, California and Yukon which was reflected in the legislation.
The major takeaway I got from the results of the survey (which, IMHO, is very different from a vote) was that there was a lot of blathering about how much safer it will make the roads for people driving home in the afternoon with no concern about the number of people who will be driving to work in the dark more days of the year. As near as I could tell, in their world, no one gets up before dawn to drive to work and traffic accidents only happen in the afternoon.
Perhaps a bit bitter but I went to a town hall meetings for the referendum and many of the speakers seemed to blame the PDT/PST switch for everything up to and including cancer and global warming. I will admit that I hadn't thought about more people dying on the Sunday that we go from PDT to PST with an increase of about ~4% though I made myself unpopular by pointing out the minor nit of that Sunday having 25 hours so about 4% longer than a 24 hour day.