Living in Saskatchewan, we are only 1 of a very few places that do not change our clocks for daylight savings time. Coming from Manitoba that had it... all I can say is I WISH I could convince people here to go with it. Yes it messes with your system for a couple of days... BUT... if you work you have time to do things after work. You can go for a round of golf after work. Even going fishing you actually have time to go throw the boat in the water. Basically it's that extra hour of daylight.
We had a referendum here years ago and some of the excuses for it were:
I don't know how to set the clock in my truck.
The roosters won't know when to crow.
The cows can't be milked at a different time.
The sun has to be directly over head at noon!!
They say there's more traffic accidents after the time change but I from the stats I've seen (and I work in civil engineering) they are the exact same for every statutory holiday and other reasons to party. St Patrick's day, Halloween, Christmas, etc etc etc
if you get up at 4 am with the sun then good for you. But your probably in bed by 7 pm too. Then it doesn't matter. But if you work a 8 to 5 or worse a 9 to 6 job... by the time you get home... you have to skip supper because the most time you will get is 4 hrs max to do anything.
Now on the flip side... year round day light savings time would in my opinion be a god send!!!! I would kill for it here... but then the chickens wouldn't know when to lay eggs.
Hmmmm... the wife says that there's no point going fishing until the last hour of daylight because that's when the walleye bite. I wonder if we got daylight savings time if the walleye would know the difference????