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A small number of apparently passionate Manitobans have been giving Premier Brian Pallister an earful about having to change their clocks twice a year.

The premier received six emails, unprompted, from members of the public between September and December last year on the subject of daylight time.

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One has an anatomical reference.

“There is no reason for us to be changing the time!” reads one of the emails, obtained by The Canadian Press under the province’s freedom of information law.

The emailer asks Pallister, figuratively, to pull his head out of his posterior — although another word was used — “and actually do something that the people want!”

Another person emailed with a concern that touched on interprovincial rivalries on the Prairies.

“Please stop letting Saskatchewan be smarter than us,” a reference to the fact that most areas of Saskatchewan remain on central standard time year-round.