Daylight saving time ends Sunday. Why B.C. is right to ditch the clock change

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Daylight saving time ends Sunday. Why B.C. is right to ditch the clock change

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On March 2, British Columbia enacted a wildly popular new policy that, according to decades of accumulated research, will increase productivity, improve mental health, reduce hospitalizations, streamline daily life and even save lives.

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What’s more, it’s free. Or, it could have been free if B.C. hadn’t insisting on frontloading the whole process with reports, surveys and various other political ditherings.

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Starting March 8, British Columbians will henceforth live under permanent daylight saving time. The province will perform one last “spring ahead” clock change, and then dwell permanently in “Pacific Time,” rather than the prior system of “Pacific Standard Time” during the fall and winter, and “Pacific Daylight Time” during the spring and summer.

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