There are plenty of Americans who wish this news was about the U.S. Are you one of them?
We’ll “spring forward” again when the clocks change this Sunday. But one province in Canada just announced they’re doing it for the LAST TIME.
British Columbia will spring forward on March 8th and NOT fall back in November. They’re switching to permanent Daylight Saving Time.
If you’re not a geography buff, British Columbia is on the West Coast, where Vancouver is. If you drive across the border from Washington state, you’re there. It extends all the way up to Alaska.
The Premier of British Columbia announced the move yesterday. His name is David Eby. (EE-bee) He’s basically like a governor in the U.S.
He said it’s been a long time coming, and that changing the clocks twice a year causes “all types of problems,” including more car crashes.
He noted that they’d been waiting on California, Oregon, and Washington to do it with them. But U.S. states need congress to sign off, and they got sick of waiting. He said he hopes the move might “push” those states to do it now.
The Yukon province just north of B.C. switched to permanent Daylight Saving Time in 2020, so it’s not unprecedented. But no one lives up there. British Columbia is Canada’s third-largest province. (1 in 7 Canadians live in B.C.)
Eby announced the move, saying “British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time, and then never again.”
(Here he is making the announcement. Right after he said it, they cranked the song “One More Time” by Daft Punk.)
(Worth noting: Hawaii and most of Arizona are the only two spots in the U.S. that don’t observe Daylight Saving Time. Hawaii never has. Arizona hasn’t since 1967.)
(CBC / BC Gov News)
