Summary
- B.C. will adopt permanent, year-round daylight saving time after clocks shift forward an hour on Sunday, March 8, 2026
- People and businesses will have eight months to prepare for the elimination of the next time change, previously scheduled for Nov. 1, 2026
- Eliminating twice-yearly time changes reduces disruptions for families, simplifies scheduling and provides an extra hour of evening light during the winter months
Nothing is natural about how we wake and go to sleep these days, I’m not sure why that would matter.
Today for example, where I live in BC (which is essentially along the border) sunrise was at 6:51am (with it starting to get light even before that) and sunset will be 5:59pm (with it still being light a bit later than that of course)
If we spring ahead to the new system, it would mean sunrise would have been at 7:51am, with sunset at 6:59pm.
When I got up this morning at quarter to 7am to my alarm beeping, even though sunrise was just about to occur, the first thing I did was turn on my bedroom light so that I could see. My blinds were closed, so I could not tell if it was light or dark outside.
When I get home, I will turn on my house and room lights for multiple hours before I go to bed tonight.
Dec 21st would have been sunrise from essentially 9am to 5pm, instead of 8am to 4pm. Either way I’m waking up in the dark, and going to bed in the dark.
In the deepest parts of summer, it is light before I wake up and is just barely reaching darkness before I go to bed most nights. Under standard time it would actually be dark before I go to bed… maybe that’s the benefit?