By Alec Lazenby
This will be the last year clocks spring forward after the B.C. government announced Monday it was making daylight time permanent.
The change will take effect Sunday, when clocks move ahead an hour. Permanent daylight time will mean that the typical falling back of clocks by an hour in November will not take place.
“When we change our clocks twice a year, it creates all kinds of problems,” Premier David Eby told reporters at the legislature. “Kids get up at the same time, even though the clocks changed, dogs get up at the same time, even though the clocks changed. Parents lose sleep. Kids lose sleep, and even people without kids or parents, they’re losing an hour of sleep, and they’re getting less sleep, and so what we see is more car accidents and people not feeling well, and impacts that have a huge unnecessary impact on the lives of British Columbians.”
