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>Why doesn’t every country mandate daytime running lights like Canada has for decades?

Because for most countries in the world that have sun bright sun most of the year it is totally ridiculous. Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Nigeria. Greece, Italy, Thailand, Filipines, Mexico...

Those countries have ridiculous daylight saving time changes because countries in the North believed this hack was a good idea.

The darkness Canadians experience in Winter and low sun in Summer are conditions in Norther countries other countries do not have.



> Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Nigeria. Greece, Italy, Thailand, Filipines, Mexico. Those countries have ridiculous daylight saving time changes because countries in the North believed this hack was a good idea.

I'm curious to know where this list came from. Argentina, Morocco, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines do not use DST.

Spain, Greece and Italy do use DST, as members of the EU I believe they are obliged to do so.


I think now EU member states are allowed to abandon DST if they want to. Nobody has so far, though.


There are very few good reasons to have your headlights off while your vehicle is running. Having a switch to manually turn them off if you're i.e. boarding a ferry and don't want to blind workers is fine but the default should be full on all the time - daytime, night time, adverse weather, whatever.




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