By Vincent Papequash

Daylight Saving

As clocks change back on November 1st, daylight saving discussion paused

Oct 9, 2020 | 11:45 AM

PRINCE GEORGE – Last year the BC Government conducted a survey asking people how they felt about adopting a year-round daylight saving time, as opposed to changing their clocks back and forth twice a year.

93 per cent of respondents were in favour of abolishing the biannual time change, and the BC Government moved forward with the legislative framework to allow the adoption of a year-round daylight saving time.

Then, it was waiting for neighboring States to the south, such as Washington and Oregon, to adopt their own year-round daylight saving time. The survey findings also included input from business stakeholders.

The BC Chamber of Commerce said, “we must do this in conjunction with our U.S. partners in the Pacific Time Zone (and even Mountain Time zone for our BC communities on Mountain time).”

Charles Scott, Lecturer at the UNBC School of Business says, “what the local setting on the clock is, is not the major challenge, coordinating a ship with rail schedules is the major challenge, and that’s already done at a high level of computerization.”

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Lara Beckett, Director at the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, has been advocating for this change for a year now.

However, any potential progress on the issue has been put on pause now due to the snap election.

Beckett says, “this has been years, and years, and years people have been asking for this, and I think there’d be a lot of support if the new provincial government just decided to do it on their own.”