So how was B次元官网网址渟pring forwardB次元官网网址� for you this year? The annual ritual of giving back the hour you borrowed from the green gods of time last fall isnB次元官网网址檛 popular, especially with parents.

As the Associated Press reported last spring, itB次元官网网址檚 not popular with cows either. Dairy farmer Katie Dotterer-Pyle and her husband David Pyle milk 350 cows on their Maryland farm, and she says they are also creatures of routine: B次元官网网址淎 few of them are just a little confused about whatB次元官网网址檚 going on.B次元官网网址�

I cite an American source for a reason. Just as U.S.-backed environmentalists decide our aquaculture and oil and gas policies for us, and their lumber barons keep our forest industry on a short leash, American governments control our time too.

Premier John Horgan confirmed this again last week, sending letters to the governors of California, Oregon and his anti-pipeline pal Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, asking them to keep him in the loop on their efforts to move to daylight saving time all year around.

B.C. could do it tomorrow on its own, but U.S. states are subject to federal law. The three western states have legislation in process to seek an exemption from the Donald Trump administration to adopt Pacific Daylight Time permanently.

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 sync with the others,B次元官网网址� Horgan said.

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The Americans decided to move B次元官网网址渟pring forwardB次元官网网址� backward in 2005. B.C.B次元官网网址檚 then-attorney general Wally Oppal surrendered to the American will, moving B次元官网网址渟pring forwardB次元官网网址� from April to the second Sunday in March effective in 2007.

Oppal said he would consult the public mood first, but with Ontario and Manitoba already saluting to the south, there wasnB次元官网网址檛 much he could do. He was concerned about kids going to school in the dark, though. He feels you, as Horgan does today, and that means exactly what it usually means.

Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1907, when British builder William Willit circulated a pamphlet called B次元官网网址淎 Waste of Daylight.B次元官网网址� It was first implemented during World War I to save fuel. But critics argue itB次元官网网址檚 a false economy, costing more in the morning.

One prominent critic in 2005 was UBC professor Stanley Coren, an expert in sleep effects. His study of Canadian traffic accidents in 1991 and 1992 found an eight per cent jump on the Monday after clocks were moved ahead. CorenB次元官网网址檚 research suggested that time change effects on sleep can persist for up to five days.

Regular readers will know I am not a fan of Americans controlling our politics and culture. It is now almost 50 years since a fellow named Pierre Trudeau decided Canada should get with modern times and adopt the metric system.

Perhaps youB次元官网网址檝e noticed that this has failed. Our ever-vigilant national media, for example, have given up even trying to use metric. We all talk American now, which is fine, because as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has explained, Canada is the worldB次元官网网址檚 first B次元官网网址減ost-national state.B次元官网网址�

I have this on the authority of The New York Times Magazine, which lovingly profiled our prime minister in 2016.

So you can forget this idea of setting our own clocks (barring of course the stubborn autonomous regions of the East Kootenay and the territory around my former home town of Dawson Creek.)

Get up and get the kids to school in the dark, until Trump says differently.

Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press Media. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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