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[Victoria Watcher]

Of course, schools and businesses are free to change THEIR hours as they please, seasonally. School can start at 10am in winter.

Like I say, it’s just odd to do it out of step with others. But not impossible, as Arizona and Saskatchewan show us.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 March 2026 - 12:42 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Of course, schools and businesses are free to change THEIR hours as they please, seasonally. School can start at 10am in winter.

Like I say, it’s just odd to do it out of step with others. But not impossible, as Arizona and Saskatchewan show us.

 

 

B.C. residents will move their clocks forward by one hour for the last time on Sunday as the province moves to permanent daylight time.

 

Premier David Eby made the announcement Monday in the B.C. legislature as an audience of South Park Elementary students danced to Daft Punk’s One More Time (to Celebrate).

 

“British Columbians have been clear that seasonal time changes do not work for them,” he said. “This decision isn’t just about clocks — it’s about making life easier for families, reducing disruptions for businesses and supporting a stable, thriving economy.”

 

But critics of the change argue that it’s not in sync with the Pacific states in the U.S., it’s bad for sleep patterns, and it will be more dangerous for kids walking and riding their bikes to school and pedestrians crossing roads in the dark.

 

Permanent daylight time means sunrise will come late in the winter months — 9 a.m. or later in Victoria and 10 or 10:30 a.m. in northern communities such as Prince George.

 

 

https://www.timescol...manent-11946787

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 March 2026 - 02:51 AM.

[Mike K.]

I guess there is more economic productivity from daylight savings than keeping it as standard.

[Victoria Watcher]

Swing it forward a few more hours. Imagine all the productivity we’d get if it was sunny until midnight.

[Mike K.]

Granted, sunrise at 9AM means it’ll be light enough at 8:15AM.

Sunrise is at 7AM today and by 6:15AM you could see ok.

[lanforod]

What I'm hoping for is that Ontario/Quebec/NY decide to permanently keep EST. 

Then we'd be permanently 2hours behind them instead of 3. That makes a lot of meetings easiers and minimizes jet lag even more.

 

I don't see ON/QC pulling the trigger though until NY does because both sides of the border have major financial markets.

[LJ]

Permanent daylight time means sunrise will come late in the winter months — 9 a.m. or later in Victoria and 10 or 10:30 a.m. in northern communities such as Prince George.

 

So even if we stayed on standard time in BC all those northern kids would be walking to school in the dark anyway.

How have they survived till now? Don't we care about northern BC kids?

Are southern BC kids the only ones worth saving?

 

What a tempest in a teapot. If the solution isn't one you favour bring up the danger to the kids. Sheesh.

[max.bravo]

I’m just glad we aren’t gonna have sunrise at 3am in the summer. My toddler would never sleep.

[Victoria Watcher]

I’m just glad we aren’t gonna have sunrise at 3am in the summer. My toddler would never sleep.

 

Can't you regulate daylight in their sleeping area in other ways?

[max.bravo]

Can't you regulate daylight in their sleeping area in other ways?

We have bought the best blackout blinds on Amazon several times and there’s always some light that gets in the side of the window. Plus the solar heat gain really heats up that room on the east side of the house in summer, so if the baby doesn’t wake up from light, they wake up from sweat. The struggle is real.

Edited by max.bravo, 03 March 2026 - 08:26 PM.

[LJ]

We have bought the best blackout blinds on Amazon several times and there’s always some light that gets in the side of the window. Plus the solar heat gain really heats up that room on the east side of the house in summer, so if the baby doesn’t wake up from light, they wake up from sweat. The struggle is real.

Put some A/C in man, or even install an overhead fan, they work great.

[Matt R.]

https://x.com/gavind...kwKsq-Q8cZlrq-g

[Mike K.]

Lots of chatter about Eby stepping down as party leader by mid-2026.

Has anyone else been hearing this, too?

[Victoria Watcher]

Prospect of dark mornings prompts call for better lighting, safer pathways for kids

A Langford councillor wants the province to reinstate active transportation grants to ensure kids have safe routes to school when the sun rises later due to year-round daylight time



https://www.timescol...r-kids-12037473



**** off Langford just open the schools later..

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2026 - 11:57 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Prospect of dark mornings prompts call for better lighting, safer pathways for kids

A Langford councillor wants the province to reinstate active transportation grants to ensure kids have safe routes to school when the sun rises later due to year-round daylight time



https://www.timescol...r-kids-12037473



**** off Langford just open the schools later..

 

 

Why is everyone so ****ing stupid?

[Matt R.]

It’s Long Covid. Brain fog.

[FogPub]

It's the idiocy of going to always-on daylight time instead of always-on standard time.

[Victoria Watcher]

DRIPA pause won’t be confidence vote, B.C. election prospect recedes

The prospect of an early election in British Columbia is receding after the government announced that legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will no longer be a confidence vote.

[Mike K.]

It sounds like NDP MLAs were going to vote against Eby.

It’s probably time for the government to call an election. Trust in this government is gone.