It seems people in Vancouver are tired of changing their clocks.
In a poll Vancouver Is Awesome ran, readers were against the changing of the clocks by a huge ratio. In the city nearly three-quarters said it needs to stop (74 per cent). When including people outside of Vancouver the hate for springing forward and falling back rises, to 77 per cent.
It's the most dominant response in V.I.A's recent polls.
Defenders of switching between daylight saving and standard time are sparse, with just 17 per cent saying keep it. A bit more than 8 per cent don't care.
Experts also think the time change should stop. A UBC professor and specialist in depression research, Raymond Lam, says sleep researchers generally agree a permanent move to standard time would be better than skipping an hour forward or backward twice a year.
"All the circadian and sleep researchers are clear that permanent standard time should be adopted, we should not have the time zone change ... for the sake of our health," he said.
The province is considering changing it but is waiting for the US's Pacific coast states to change at the same time.
The Yukon stopped doing it in 2020, and almost all of Saskatchewan stays the same time year-round (the exception is Lloydminster since the majority of the city is in Alberta).
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 1233 readers and asked the question: What do you think about daylight saving?
The poll ran from 11/4/2022 to 11/7/2022. Of the 1233 votes, we can determine that 536 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 2.79%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
With files from the Canadian Press.
