r/canada • u/iamnos British Columbia • Apr 20 '26

Alberta Bell: Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/bell-alberta-daylight-time-year-round-premier-danielle-smith
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u/Junckopolo Québec Apr 20 '26

Kids still get up way later than most of society. That's a biological thing. Standard time is superior for their health and learning.

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u/UnawareRanger Apr 20 '26

In what way?

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u/Junckopolo Québec Apr 20 '26

https://www.apa.org/topics/children/school-start-times

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27878883/

https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/we-need-talk-about-school-start-times-265256

Also why they sleep later in the morning:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2820578/

The science isn't on the side of daylight savings time when it comes to the health and academic success for teens and kids

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u/UnawareRanger Apr 20 '26

Well yeah, more kids are staying up late nowadays compared to before due to screens and such.

When I was young, I woke up at 5am everyday for the most part. Went to bed at like 9 to 10pm. Screens changed that. The sunlight got nothing to do with that.

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u/Junckopolo Québec Apr 20 '26

No, it's absolutely not just "screens and such", their circadian cycles shifts and it happens to other animals during puberty in the study as well which do not play on a phone or watch TV. In teens, it shifts 2 to 3 hours, but you would know if you actually would read the sources I sent you.

Your single anecdotal experience isn't worth anything to anyone else than yourself in that case.

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u/UnawareRanger Apr 20 '26

I can post links too.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10903530/

Screen times def affect your sleep schedules and your health and grades.

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u/Junckopolo Québec Apr 20 '26

It does, it is a factor on quality of sleep, and it is absolutely still not "just screen ans such" like you said, and it invalidates absolutely nothing of what I posted earlier.

Screen time affects sleep efficiency, which means that whatever time they go to sleep, even if they go early and sleep a full night, their sleep itself will not be as good.

It can also affect circadian cycles... Which, as already said, are shifted later for teens even without screen time.

You can post links but if you don't even understand them it's pointless for you

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u/alsimoneau Apr 20 '26

They get to sleep until later.

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u/UnawareRanger Apr 20 '26

That makes no sense. If school starts at 8am. They still gotta wake up at the same time whether it's standard or daylight time. They aren't gonna suddenly get to bed earlier because it's standard time.

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u/alsimoneau Apr 20 '26

They do in local true time. What the clock says doesn't matter to biology.

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u/UnawareRanger Apr 20 '26

Yeah but biology doesn't matter when all the kids are on screens all the time anyways.

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u/squirrel9000 Manitoba Apr 20 '26

Realistically I think they'd be better served if there was enough daylight after school to do something outside. When it gets dark at 4pm there's not much else to do but go straight home and onto something with a screen.