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Even when Canadian governments do the right thing, they do it as badly as possible. It is infuriating. Today, BC announced that we’re going to stop doing time changes (good) but stay on DST (bad). You don’t have to take my word for it that DST is the wrong choice. Here’s basically every organization that thinks about sleep or circadian rhythms on the topic: American Academy of Sleep Medicine
https://aasm.org/advocacy/position-statements/permanent-standard-time-is-the-optimal-choice-for-health-and-safety/ Sleep Research Society
https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cpst-PERMANENT-STANDARD-TIME-talking-points-2024.pdf Canadian Sleep Society
https://css-scs.ca/society-news/position-statement-of-the-canadian-sleep-society-on-the-practice-of-daylight-saving-time-dst/ British Sleep Society
https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/187671/1/Journal%20of%20Sleep%20Research%20-%202024%20-%20Crawford%20-%20The%20British%20Sleep%20Society%20position%20statement%20on%20Daylight%20Saving%20Time%20in%20the.pdf National Sleep Foundation
https://www.thensf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NSF-Position-on-Permanent-Standard-Time_Final_.pdf Society for Research on Biological Rhythms https://srbr.org/why-we-should-let-the-sun-set-on-daylight-saving-time/ European Sleep Research Society and others https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commission_on_DST.pdf