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B.C. decided to move to permanent daylight time in 2019. But we’re still springing forward on Sunday [Video]

If you haven’t been losing enough sleep lately, what with the general unsettled nature of global politics these days, not to worry: you’ll lose at least an hour this weekend when the clocks spring forward to daylight saving time.

Most of British Columbia springs forward Sunday at 2 a.m. local time — several years after the provincial government passed legislation to set the stage for a shift to permanent daylight time.

In 2019, more than 223,000 British Columbians voted on whether or not to stop switching clocks. A whopping 93 per cent of participants voted in favour of a move to permanent daylight time. Legislation was passed to make the change, but didn’t give a firm timeline. 

Premier David Eby has said in the past the change wouldn’t be enacted until B.C.’s American neighbours — including Washington state, Oregon and California — do the same.

Daylight time, which moves the clocks forward an hour, begins on …

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