Reading Jillian Spring’s letter of disgust (Echo, 1 April) with regard to the ridiculous practice of daylight savings time, I recalled the conversation I heard on Radio National earlier this week with a Canadian who informed listeners that some provinces in Canada keep daylight savings time all year round.
Now that’s my kinda people. Why, you might ask?
Because daylight savings time gives one more daylight time at the end of the day – and this is especially helpful during the winter months, when one has to rush home to close the shed, top up the bird baths and other essential outside chores before darkness falls.
The Canadians don’t even mind delivering their children to school in the dark, just so they can enjoy more daylight at the end of the day. Thank God that some people in North America have good sense.
I am duly encouraged.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
