D-PAC

The official account of Daylight PAC. We have strong opinions about Daylight Savings. The third best DPAC on Twitter, but lots of upward potential

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

Even @trevortombe can't disagree with this one

#ableg #abpoli #yeg

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

Fascinating history on the daylight vs standard time fight.

https://t.co/MPMtkQHgoH

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

The wisdom of youth

https://t.co/PtsJg66Jbk

[no context the west wing @LemonLymancom]

WE CHANGED TIME ZONES???!!

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

It's morning in America - House passes bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent

https://t.co/ogGK1LSaWa

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

Don't succumb to the lobbyists of big clock. Keep it simple. End the change

https://t.co/IUdyr5HjJS

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

On daylight savings time and the economic impact of switching...

Horner seems to think that Dani will put that to a referendum.

(But not a PST, that would solve actual problems)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

We wholeheartedly endorse this message

https://t.co/GyESHhDp0w

[Laureen Teskey Harper @LaureenHarper]

I don't care what we pick, just that we stop changing.

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

This is the first time I've ever said anything nice about a New Democrat. Much love to David Eby on this momentous occasion.

https://t.co/d0UN2vSQJt

[Katie DeRosa @katiederosayyj]

NEW - Six years after BC passed legislation to move to permanent Daylight Saving Time, David Eby announces that BC will stay on permanent Daylight Saving Time. When we spring forward in March, it will be the last time the clocks change with the seasons. #bcpoli

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

10 referendums and no room on the ballot for DST.

Where is Thomas Dang when you need him?

#ableg #abpoli

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

We're back! We know you've missed us.

@LukaszukAB can't be the only one with a performative petition for self aggrandizement.

That's our job. We were there first.

I'd say we're turning back the clocks. But... you know...

Stay tuned #ableg

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

Beaten to the punch by BC. Devastating.

https://t.co/Gqm5m0Oisp

[CHEK News @CHEK_News]

British Columbia Opposition Leader John Rustad has introduced legislation that if passed would put a stop residents from having to change their clocks twice a year.

https://t.co/bFuD0zm5lU

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

@ChadBHallman2 @jkenney @Alberta_UCP You were still in diapers when he was elected MLA. Have some respect for your elders.

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

We were expecting the regular version of the pandemic. It seems someone gave us the Snyder Cut instead

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

@coreyhogan 68% of Canadians believe this statistic is made up. 37% are shocked and appalled

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

@ziepat @TheBeaverton Scientists are wrong.

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

The wisdom of youth #ableg

https://t.co/PtsJg66blM

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

We're taking most of the credit for this. #ableg

https://t.co/WAWcsK0r8B

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

So.... Judicial recount? #ableg

[D-PAC @AlbertaDaylight]

@coreyhogan We pitched that years ago. Alas, it took way to long for this to dawn on everyone else.

@trevortombe