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Originally posted by donc

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209  The announcement arrived about 30 minutes ago. It was actually decided a few years ago but they felt it was better to wait for Washington, Oregon, and California. Those U.S. states are in favor but they need federal approval to change time zones and the wait has been going on for a few years. The B.C government  has decided to make the first move. No we can officially be out of sync with the U.S and most of Canada. It will be interesting to watch the sun come up as most of us are wondering how dark the winter mornings are going to be. It all starts this weekend.

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Here in New Zealand, we have been doing daylight savings for decades. Its not hard to get your head around it.

Wayne, aren't you also still doing (?) NZST?  

https://www.govt.nz/browse/recreation-and-the-environment/daylight-saving/#:~:text=Daylight%20saving%20starts%20each%20year,the%20first%20Sunday%20in%20April.

Fwiw, I don't have absolute faith in politicians .... I'm glad to see that BC went with full-time DST rather than full-time standard time.

Just got used to putting the garbage out with the sky starting to lighten, and now it's dark again.

Give me standard time any day, every day. I don't need daylight late at night.

As a member of the most adaptable species on the planet, I have never been troubled by the time change, but I would like to applaud BC for being ahead of the times even if their acronym indicates they are a couple millennia behind the times.

That's the kind thing that passes for humor around here.

I was always under the impression that DST started in the Fall by turning clocks back and ended in the Spring with turning clocks forward. WELL...it turns out that it starts in the Spring and ends in the Fall. What that means is if they eliminate DST...we won't have the extra hour of light at the end of the day from Spring to Fall.

Is that how it'll work in BC, Donc?

Only change I noticed is that I was able to go to bed when the sun was still shining.

Bobby

While I don't make use of the time [DST] between supper and dusk [i.e. not late at nite in my part of the world] like I did when I was younger/healthier/??,  I'm not going to deprive others of the opportunity.   

Not that anybody asked, but I figure that while drawbacks do exist, they're typically blown W-A-Y out of proportion.   [Kinda like what we hear w.r.t kids and "sugar highs" at Halloween.... and having to "adjust" to new/different school settings.    However my, and my wife's, take is probably off-kilter ... we only raised four ... when we weren't teaching.]

BC, huh?

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Originally posted by Buddur

I was always under the impression that DST started in the Fall by turning clocks back and ended in the Spring with turning clocks forward. WELL...it turns out that it starts in the Spring and ends in the Fall. What that means is if they eliminate DST...we won't have the extra hour of light at the end of the day from Spring to Fall.

Is that how it'll work in BC, Donc?

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In late May to mid June the daylight can go past 10:30 p.m. By late August it starts getting dark after 9:00. This time change gives the kids time to play 9 innings of Little League and still have enough daylight to walk home. This time zone has approximately 30 minutes of east to west variation of sunrise and sunset so its hard to post hard and fast answers. North Eastern B.C. has more activity with Alberta so they have adopted Mountain time instead of Pacific time. At my feeble age I'm rarely out past 9:30 so I probably won't care. My young grand kids will walk to school in the dark. The walk includes about 2 blocks of forest through a city park so the current routine is walking with a group of parents and/or older kids. I'm sure there will be lots of varying opinions once we are on the new system.