B.C. Premier John Horgan says heB次元官网网址檚 getting ready to spring forward on making daylight saving time a year-round system.

Horgan said Thursday he has written to the governors of California, Oregon and Washington, where state legislators are all considering bills that would seek an exemption from U.S. federal law so they can opt out of turning the clocks back an hour each fall and then ahead in the spring.

The movement south of the border means it might be time for B.C. to do the same, Horgan said Thursday. He has described the seasonal time change as the number one issue he is contacted about since becoming premier in 2017.

Premier says heB次元官网网址檚 looking to work with US states on moving past seasonal time changes

B次元官网网址� Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc)

B次元官网网址淚 sent a letter yesterday or today to the three governors in California, Oregon and Washington,B次元官网网址� Horgan told reporters in Victoria. B次元官网网址淲e believe that if we are going to go forward with a change to keep either permanent daylight saving time or permanent Pacific standard time, we need to do it in all four jurisdictions.

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B次元官网网址淲e have too many economic ties, too many social and cultural ties to have one or two jurisdictions out of synch with the others. My request to the governors was to share information with me.B次元官网网址�

HorganB次元官网网址檚 action came the day after Boundary-Similkameen MLA Linda Larson presented her version of the change to the B.C. legislature for a third time. Larson is calling for daylight saving time to be adopted year-round.

B次元官网网址淭he daylight saving time is the time people want,B次元官网网址� Larson told Black Press. B次元官网网址淭hey want the extra daylight in the summer months. People are more interested in the light in the nicer months than they are in the winter months.B次元官网网址�

B.C. switches to daylight saving time on Sunday, and has stayed in synch with western U.S. states due to the shared economic ties. Horgan noted that unlike U.S. states, B.C. can make the change without input from the federal government.

tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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