End Daylight Savings Time in Manitoba

To:  Manitoba Legislative Assembly

End Daylight Saving Time in Manitoba!





The annual tradition of “Springing Forward” and “Falling Back” clocks was first initiated in 1915, and widely adopted in North America in 1966. In 2007, the schedule was changed to start the time change three weeks early in spring and extend it by two weeks in the fall.





The idea of implementing the time change was to save energy by having more daylight in the evening as people aren't expected to need their lights on as early in the evening.





This argument has been debated. A 2006 report from the U.S. Department of Energy anticipated electricity savings of four-tenths of a per cent per day of extended daylight savings time, totaling three one-hundredths of a per cent of annual electricity consumption.





More recently, studies now show the Daylight Savings Time may actually cost more energy. The idea is that Daylight Savings Time was implemented in a time when Air Conditioning was a luxury that few homes had. Today, Air Conditioning is very common place in the North American home. With Daylight Savings Time moving the daylight forward, there is an increase of electricity consumption because home owners are cooling their homes longer into the night.





Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana, with L. E. Grant, 2008.





http://www2.bren.ucsb.edu/~kotchen/links/DSTpaper.pdf





In addition to the neglible/non-existent cost savings, Daylight Savings Times changes are more likely to cause accidents.





http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=3b57f55e-1c87-4f46-b486-a0a1e9c01ed1&k=7211








For all of these reasons, we should eliminate Daylight Savings Time in Manitoba. Please sign this petition so that we can forward it to our Members in the Manitoba Legislative. Thank you!








Stéphane Normandeau

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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