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Most British Columbians will change their clocks for the last time this Sunday.
B.C. is permanently adopting daylight time, making its "spring forward" on March 8 the last time change, Premier David Eby announced Monday.
"We are done waiting. British Columbia is going to change our clocks just one more time — and then never again," Eby said.
He said changing the clocks causes "all types of problems," from children and their parents losing sleep, to dogs getting up at the wrong time, to more car accidents.
Residents will have eight months to prepare for Nov. 1, 2026, when the clocks would have been turned back one hour, but will now remain the same.
B.C.'s new time zone will be called "Pacific time," according to the province.
The whole province will now observe this time zone, with the exception of B.C.'s East Kootenay which observes mountain time in alignment with Alberta.
B.C.'s Peace Region and the Kootenay town of Creston have never changed clocks for daylight time.
B.C. passed legislation to make this change possible in 2019, but without a firm timeline. Previously, Eby said he would wait for B.C.'s American neighbours — including Washington state, Oregon and California — to do the same.
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