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 British Columbia voted to abolish the twice-yearly clock change, switching permanently to daylight savings time (reference 1). Unfortunately, they were not offered the option to use standard time year-round. Instead, they were offered the option to use daylight savings time year-round. Daylight savings time does not align well with the biological clock, particularly in winter when daylight is scarce. Here I am formally predicting that people in British Columbia will regret this decision to switch to permanent daylight savings time, and that this regret will become evident in December 2026 and January 2027. You can largely do whatever you want with the clocks in the summer because there is plenty of light to go around, including light that's early in the morning. However, in winter it's a different story when daylight is scarce. When that happens, it works much better with our biological clocks and our mood when the daylight occurs early in the morning - which is the case in st...