Sunday at 2 a.m. marks the start of daylight saving time and people in most of B.C. will be turning their clocks ahead by one hour, meaning one less hour to sleep.
It's not like that everywhere in the province, however.
The Peace River region of northeastern B.C., which includes Chetwynd, Hudson's Hope, Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Fort Nelson, is on Mountain Standard Time 365 days a year and does not change clocks in the spring and fall.
The East Kootenay region, including Cranbrook, Fernie, Golden and Invermere, is on Mountain time and people in those cities do change their clocks in the spring and fall, while the city of Creston observes Mountain Standard Time all year and doesn't switch with the seasons.
Saskatchewan is similar to Creston and clocks in that province stay the same all year. So it will be the same time in Saskatchewan as it is in Alberta from next Sunday to November 1st, when Alberta's clocks go back to standard time.
All Canadians who observe daylight saving time will turn their clocks back by an hour on Sunday, Nov. 1.
A B.C. government poll taken last year found 93 per cent of respondents favoured staying with daylight saving time year-round. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised in October that 2020 would be the year that change would be made permanent, but it all depends on what the B.C's trading partners in the United States decides. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee was in favour of year-round daylight savings for the entire west coast but said U.S. Congress would not approve that if it came to a vote.
