Over the years I’ve talked about Daylight Saving Time at the time that clocks change, like this Sunday.  Why we don’t change time and whether we are always on Standard Time or Daylight Saving Time can make your head spin a bit when you  analyze the situation.   You see, Saskatchewan’s Time Act dictates Central Standard Time shall be used and observed throughout the year, defined to be the time which is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.  However, with respect to Mean Solar Time, this translates into us actually being on Daylight Saving Time year-round.  To add to the head-spinning, all points east of Saskatoon stay on Central Standard Time and all points west of Saskatoon are on Mountain Time but stay on Central Standard Time except for the area around Lloydminster due to the Alberta connection.  We humans do tend to complicate matters.  If you’ll pardon the pun, the times seem to be changing.   Mexico has decided to stay on Daylight Saving Time permanently after switching to it next spring.  Even more significantly, back in March, the U.S. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent starting next year.  The House of Representatives now needs to pass it before it can go to President Biden to sign, assuming he supports it.   British Columbia looks set to go to permanent DST if the U.S. does.  Both Ontario and Quebec may go to permanent DST depending on what goes on in the States so we may see the dominos fall next year.   As for the Prairie provinces, who knows?  Alberta so far says it will keep changing, Manitoba is a question mark, and Saskatchewan?  I haven’t the foggiest idea.  I guess “Time” will tell. 

That’s Coffeetalk.  I’m Vic Dubois.