Time Change - Ontario
- Thread starter TheShadow
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hoping for permanent daylight savingSo some of Ontario will be doing away with the time changes yearly, and some won't.
Let's get it together and do away with it all!
Now, I have to go change my clocks...
from what i have heard there was a time when we had permanent double daylight saving. sounds even better. lets do that instead
Manitoba still is.hoping for permanent daylight saving
from what i have heard there was a time when we had permanent double daylight saving. sounds even better. lets do that instead
I think I would have preferred Standard time , won’t know for sure for a year or so . Not changing is a plus regardless.
We didn't change our clocks while many others did but it still feels like the time is different. Not sure what time it is anywhere else.
I appreciate daylight in the morning to go to work at a decent time. Most outdoor work has become 9=5.
If youre going to work at 9 youre in sunshine no matter and the drive home is twilight instead of pitch black.
How many of you are there? Its 5PM right now and still light out.
Here is a fun fact...
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice (around December 21) is the shortest day of the year, but sunrise and sunset times are not symmetric around it because of the equation of time. This comes from Earth’s elliptical orbit (which makes it move faster near perihelion in early January) plus the tilt of its axis. Solar noon therefore drifts later relative to clock time around this period.
Iflscience
Key sequence at mid-northern latitudes:
Earliest sunset typically occurs in early December (roughly 1–3 weeks before the solstice).
Shortest day (solstice) is around December 21.
Latest sunrise typically occurs in late December to early January (after the solstice).
Timeanddate
As a result, right after the solstice:
Sunset begins getting later (evenings lengthen) while sunrise is still getting later or is nearly stationary for a while.
The extra daylight is therefore added mainly to the afternoon/evening at first. Mornings only start brightening noticeably later (once sunrise begins advancing earlier).
Daysight
This is why many people notice longer evenings first in late December, even as mornings can still feel a bit darker for a couple of weeks. The overall day length starts increasing immediately after the solstice (slowly at first, then faster toward the equinox), but the change is uneven between morning and evening. The exact timing shifts with latitude (the offset is larger farther south and smaller nearer the Arctic Circle). The Southern Hemisphere has the opposite seasonal pattern around its winter solstice in June.
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