Changing clocks could be a thing of the past in British Columbia as the province muses joining Washington, Oregon and California, which have proposed eliminating seasonal time changes. DaylightSavingTime | CBCNews
B.C. is considering following Washington, Oregon and California as those states pursue daylight time year round.Changing clocks could be a thing of the past in B.C. as the province muses joining Washington, Oregon and California, which have proposed eliminating seasonal time changes.
"We have too many economic ties ... too many social and cultural ties to have one jurisdiction or two being out of sync with the others," Horgan told reporters in Victoria on March 7. "We saw in studies there are more suicides around the time change. There's disruption of life," Hunt toldThe Gastown steam clock in downtown Vancouver on March 8, 2019. On March 10, we spring forward into daylight time. In three U.S. states just south of us — there is a push to spring forward and stay there.
It also noted a corresponding decrease in the risk of heart attack at the end of daylight time in the fall.
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