Tell the government to bring back Standard Time this fall and never change it again. The best defence against any pathogens is ample sleep, which many people struggle to attain. Changing time twice a year disrupts sleep, causes stress, particularly to families with school-aged children and teens, and is linked to a significant spike in heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents*.

Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in Germany in 1916 to ramp up war efforts. It is costly to implement every year, but has no conclusive benefits to modern societies. No wonder many countries, including China, Russia, and the EU, have or will scrap it. 

While the rest of the world is eliminating DST, some jurisdictions in the United States and Canada have or will adopt year-round DST, which would cause chaos in the winter months when everyone has to get up in the dark to go to school/work, when drivers can't see well.

According to many sleep scientists like Dr Myriam Juda, a researcher at Simon Fraser University's Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Lab, permanent standard time is much more appropriate for our circadian rhymes, and therefore better for our health and wellbeing. With year-round DST, the sun will rise later in the winter, resulting in less exposure to morning sunlight, which humans need to feel wakeful. With reduced exposure to morning sunlight, it's harder to wake up in the morning and more difficult to fall asleep at night.

Sleep is a basic human need, just like eating and drinking, and is fundamental to our overall health and well-being. Sleep deprivation is related to many physical ailments such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, as well as psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety and psychosis. Our societies are currently experiencing an unprecedented sleep epidemic in history. We need more sleep, not less. Changing time to save daylight is a well-intended global experiment that has failed. It is time to put it to bed. 

Please sign our petition to stop time change and ban Daylight Savings everywhere so that all people can sleep more and live healthier. #SleepforPeople #EndDaylightSavingNow

“The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic impact on our health, our wellness, even the safety and education of our children. It’s a silent sleep loss epidemic. It’s fast becoming one of the greatest challenges we face in the 21st century,” - Matthew Walker, PhD, Professor of neuroscience and psychology and the director of Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab at UC Berkeley

Recommended Readings

"Year-round daylight time will cause 'permanent jet lag,' sleep experts warn in letter to government - Change would particularly affect children, say signatories, who want permanent standard time", CBC News, Oct 31, 2019 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/daylight-time-bc-sleep-experts-1.5342620

“Health risk warnings ignored as B.C. moves to permanent daylight time, researchers say”Bethany Lindsay, CBC News, December 05, 2019 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-permanent-daylight-time-health-risks-1.5384793

"Daylight-saving time is literally killing us", Hilary Brueck, Business Insider, www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-deadly-2018-3

About Us

Our petition was started on March 8, 2020 by natural sleep advocate Bei Linda Tang, a mom of two school-aged children in Vancouver, Canada and the Owner/Creative Director of Dream Designs (DreamDesigns.ca) - an organic natural bedding maker since 1981. Our mission is to eliminate daylight saving and time change so that people can sleep more, stress less, and live healthier.