I hope everyone is doing well. Seeing the second wave of COVID-19 in Canada and the third wave in the United States has been extremely stressful and depressing. The push for moving to standard time might seem a bit frivolous these days but I believe that we should still pursue this and put pressure on our Governments to do the right thing. 

 I am glad to see that there is still a lot of support to stop changing the clocks twice a year.   The vast majority of people support this. Unfortunately there is a lot of uninformed thinking about all year daylight saving time. There is a great deal of scientific evidence supporting staying on standard time. I hope you will send this factual information to your friends and family and ask them to sign the petition.  

I have found getting up in the morning in the dark even when it’s a reasonable 7 am is very hard. If daylight saving time continued, by mid winter it would be dark at 9 am. Morning light is so important for our health and welfare.  Early morning can be the most dangerous time on the roads. Having later daylight exacerbates this. 

Wishing everyone good physical and mental health. Take care of yourself and others in your life. Stay strong.

Irene