Daylight savings foes are ill-informed

Recent letters to the Journal about scrapping daylight time would be amusing if they were meant to be satire, but unfortunately they just come across as uninformed.

First, the idea that millions of Albertans don’t want to get rid of the twice-a-year headache of clock adjusting seems unlikely given that there are only four million people in the province and, if so, where are the petitions to keep daylight time?

If these people actually looked at the proposal, they would see that they have the opportunity to decide which time zone they want to keep.

The second point they make, which is full of sarcasm and little else, about chickens and other livestock and their ability to tell time is also poorly thought out.

While one can concede that the animals cannot tell time, the staff and machines controlling the barns can, and their actions would very likely affect the animals who most definitely respond to changes in the amount of daylight.

Hopefully, the rhetoric is not because the change was suggested by an NDP MLA but for other well-thought out reasons. Dale Travis, Edmonton