>>>Hi Alan.
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>>>>The province of Saskatchewan doesn't use DST and they seem to get along just fine.
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>>>Actually, I'd like us to move to DST. Here in late August, it's dark by 8:30 pm. I'd rather that it was 9:30 which DST would give us. Also, in early July, it's broad daylight by 4:30 am. Given that our bedroom windows face south, I'd much rather it be 5:30. Finally, it's a PITA having to accommodate everyone being on DST: have to remember that TO is two hours ahead of us now but one hour in the winter and Calgary is the same time as us now but an hour behind in the winter. Flight times change too: a flight that leaves Regina at 7:00 am in the winter leaves at 6:00 in the summer.
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>>>Doug
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>>Interesting. That's how the days were in Edmonton, but Edmonton is a fair piece north of Regina. Anyway, it can be just as easily fixed by doing away with DST altogether.
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>>It wreaks havoc on my system when I'm used to rising at a certain hour, and suddenly I'm up an hour earlier. For my money, it really is pointless.
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>I'm in Edmonton. Once again it is dark when I get up and dark when I go to bed. Cool and damp today. The leaves are yellow on the maple trees and all over my lawn. What year did you leave Edmonton, Alan?

In the 1980s I worked for an inventory control software company with clients all over the world. One of them was in Edmonton, the Alberta Liquor Control Board. I had supervisory responsibility for all our installation projects (we made more money from customizing and interfacing to client systems than from the software licenses themselves) and made two trips there. In terms of seeing the swings in daylight they could not have been more perfectly timed. One trip was in mid June and the other was in mid December. Both were memorable. The first time I hardly saw darkness, just slept through it. The ALCB warehouse manager, the main guy I was dealing with, was in heaven because he could play 36 holes of golf after work. The December trip was a different kettle of fish. You were at work for quite a while before the sun came up. By around 3:30 in the afternoon it was gone again. What sticks in my memory is that the sun seemed to rise and set from almost the same point on the horizon. We think of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. Both seemed to occur to the south. If you envision a clock, it was like the sun rose at 25 minutes after the hour and set at 35 minutes after (as opposed to 15 and 45).