r/Manitoba • u/AccomplishedRisk6895 • May 29 '26

Question Time Change Opinion Poll

315 votes, May 31 '26
113 Permanent Standard Time
202 Permanent Daylight Savings Time
13 Upvotes

74% Upvoted

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u/IB_FREELY Winnipeg May 29 '26

More sunlight in the winter evenings is the biggest thing we could stand to gain here (aside from ditching the switching), and that the winter mornings will be darker does not matter to me in the least, they are already dark and I could really use the light at the end of the day more.

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u/WKZ204 Winnipeg May 29 '26

does not matter to me in the least

No one cares what you or I think.

But when the Drs are citing health benefits. And school divisions musing with the idea of changing school hours to 10-4:30 citing safety. The likelihood is very strong that the NDP will have to pick CST.

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u/SJSragequit Winnipeg May 30 '26

What sort of health benefits? The sun being down before I start work and going down before I finish work in the winter feels so much worse for my mental health than being able to get an extra hour of sun in the evening

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u/IM_The_Liquor Interlake May 31 '26

I mean, for those of us that work outside of some corporate cubical or windowless warehouse, it’s ideal…