Make sure to keep your hands away from the clocks, as here in Manitoba, daylight savings time is now permanent. While many are happy to say goodbye to the time change, some are wondering if it could create a few new headaches.
“I don’t think that it’s going to make too much of a difference to the majority of people,” said Trevor Williams, a Winnipeg resident.
Deb Adeoti & Tessa Harding, Winnipeg residents, said, “I’m happy about it because I don’t like changing my clock and you don’t have to change it. The Apple changes it for you. No, they don’t. For me, they don’t change it. They don’t change it for me. But I like, I think it’s better.”
According to one Winnipeg researcher, putting an end to the twice-yearly change could have some health benefits.
“We’ve seen early on with the time change in the spring, greater incidence of car accidents, heart attacks, other health related issues, because that one-hour time change has an effect on the body,” said Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, the director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences.
But Kirshenbaum says permanent standard time would have been the better choice for our body clocks, and darker winter mornings could make waking up a struggle.
“In particular, I think children. It’s going to be a little harder to get them out of bed in the morning to go to school, or daycare, and caregivers are going to have to take that into account because it’s hard enough being a child, but, getting up when it’s still dark out, I think will be an issue,” said Dr. Kirshenbaum.
The clock is ticking for the tech industry. From incorrect meeting times to software issues, IT professionals have been working to keep systems running smoothly. But not everything is in their hands.
“Honestly, you hear this a lot as people kind of relate this back to Y2K, right? That kind of like, oh, what’s going to happen here?” said Scott Ogonoski, the director of managed services at the Exchange Technology Services. “The one thing that you can’t be entirely confident on is whether or not all of your vendors and all your developers you work with have also done the same thing.
“If things aren’t working on Monday, restart that device, restart your computer, restart your iPad, it will probably synchronize with the time after it got a update.”
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