Dale Boyd
Osoyoos Times
With Yukon and Washington residents joining British Columbians in expressing an overwhelming desire to keep the clocks on permanent Daylight Saving Time (DST), the “spring ahead” this Sunday, March 8, is likely the last.
Yukon government announced on March 4 that they will be joining B.C. (except for areas on Mountain Time) in turning the clocks ahead for the final time this weekend: on March 8 at 2 a.m.
The bill brought forward in October, 2019 ending the bi-annual time change and is a legacy piece of legislation for Boundary-Similkameen MLA Linda Larson who helped lead the charge to permanently end the time change for years. Larson has announced she is not running for re-election after this term.
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The legislation put forward in 2019 gives Premier John Horgan the ability to enact the year-round Daylight Saving Time sometime in the future that “maintains alignment with Washington, Oregon, California and Yukon, which are all in the process of creating or enacting similar legislation,” the province stated in a press release at the time.
“So the idea being that between now and what would be this time next year, that the states to the south of us would have ample time to change if they were going to. This is one of those things where we do not need to wait for them to do this. We can do it at any time,” Larson told the Osoyoos Times in 2019.
The U.S. Congress has yet to approve a the effort strongly supported by the public and voted through by Washington lawmakers.
