Could B.C. go it alone on daylight saving time? Premier says hell ponder it [Video]

Could the bubbling trade war between Canada and the U.S. produce a situation where B.C. and Washington state are in different time zones?

On Wednesday, B.C. Premier David Eby was prodded with the perennial question of whether B.C. should stop changing its clocks twice a year by keeping either daylight saving time or standard time year-round.

Under former premier John Horgan, B.C.’s NDP government passed legislation enabling the province to end the biannual time change, but the measure has never been enacted.

That’s because B.C. has sought to align the shift with jurisdictions along the west coast like Washington and California and avoid business disruptions.

Changes in the U.S. have been stalled by congressional inaction on the file.

“My usual response to this is that our biggest …