Time Change

By Cheryl Jahn

Time Change

Good riddance to time change

Mar 3, 2026 | 3:20 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – In 2019, then-Attorney General David Eby introduced the Interpretation Amendment Act, which would have scrubbed the time change. It didn’t happen. But now, on the eve of when most British Columbians will change their clocks this weekend, the news was good. Premier Eby has pulled the pin on the time change. For some, that’s welcome news.

“You know this has been something people have been asking for for years and years, and years and years,” says Lara Beckett, a long time opponent of time change.

The argument made prior to now was that British Columbia would wait until Washington State, Oregon, and California changed time in the interests of trade.

“We we trade with Alberta. Always have,” she says. “We trade with the Yukon. We trade with the States and we trade around the world, and we’re all in different time zones. Does it really matter? We need to pick something that works for the people of BC that is safer. So we’re not changing we’re not having those traffic impacts.”

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Saskatchewan adopted The Time Act in 1966 to improve uniformity. Some argued it messed with livestock feeding habits. And Tom DeWaal with the Cattlemen’s Association says time change messes up the biological clocks of those FEEDING the livestock.

“Farmers like to feed cattle at the same time every day,” he says. “The excuse that they used for, time change was so farmers that were putting in their crops had extra sunlight to deal with, in the spring when they were putting in their crops. Farmers go out when it’s time to go out, they go out and that’s when they put it in and they get it done. That that hour ain’t going to make a big difference.”

And while that may be the case, he says in an inadvertent way, the time change does affect one aspect of livestock.

“Nature tells us this – when you have a moose, when you have an elk, when you have a caribou, deer, whatever that mammal is, they always calve in the spring. And they calve in the spring because, at the time of year when the breeding season is, when the rut or the breeding season is, generally is the most daylight, and that’s when conception happens.”

The Province’s decision has prompted our most easterly neighbour … Alberta … to look at following suit. That means it will be in lock-step with Alberta from November to March, and Alberta will sync with Saskatchewan from March to November.