Monday, March 09, 2015

Daylight fight, brains left in total darkness.

The lazy whiners are at it again. No switching back and forth from standard to daylight. We should stay on one time. These people aren't deep thinkers. Hell they aren't even shallow thinkers. Their brains are mirror glass. They only see the entire world in their own narrow self interest which is giving up a single hour of standard time which benefits all.
... It matters little else. I was alive and aware of the introduction of Daylight Time. The prime reason that Ontario goes to Daylight time is not to save money, or catch daylight or grow crops. It has everything to banking, finance, and corporate management.
... By rights, Toronto would definitely benefit by changing to Central Standard, and staying there. But that means, that there would be only six working hours of exposure to interact with the banking, and finance of New York. One single hour in standard time equal two unproductive working hours. So Ontario, or most of Ontario changed to the Eastern Standard Time Zone. New York went daylight. Ontario must match it.
... There was a powerful behind the scenes push by Ontario finance, business and industry in the early sixties to get the province to keep in step with New York. Notably, the motive was to allow the TSE(TSX) to match exactly the opening hours of the NYSE.
... A specific example. I grew up in a pulp mill town on the north shore of Lake Superior. And most of the pulp mills province wide interacted with New York on everything from decisions, banking, transfers and global sales. The management was so happy when the town adopted Daylight savings. They could match fully the open hours of their clients/senior executives. A couple of years later daylight savings became law because those communities in Ontario that matched American Eastern Standard time benefited economically.
... As a result, time matching to New York has helped Ontario economically. As long as New York goes Daylight Savings Ontario goes Daylight Savings. If New York decides otherwise. Then Ontario will otherwise too. For purely financial reasons it must match. Its millions upon millions of dollars at peril, if Ontario goes its own way.

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