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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