Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Worth cooperating

It's been mentioned on a few other blogs, but the daylight savings time issue seems to be the day's big one, so here's my two cents' worth.

While it's odd for the U.S. to make the change without consulting Canada and Mexico (who are both very obviously affected by the move), this is one of the situations where there's no value in fighting the U.S.' move, and indeed if there are energy savings to be had then it's more than worthwhile for Canada to follow along as well.

Of course it'll be the provinces who have to decide, but the federal government should do its best to coordinate the move. There's no real benefit to maintaining a distinct policy on DST (and I'll acknowledge that this probably applies to Saskatchewan's avoiding DST as well), and tons of costs to having a less standardized system across the continent.

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