Saturday, March 9, 2019

Time for a Time Change: Spring Forward, lose some sleep ... clocks move ahead Sunday AM




It's that time of the year again, with your Sunday set to become one hour shorter as we make the annual shift to our Spring time keeping and the loss of an hour of sleep when we awake later tomorrow morning.

The time change requirements make for an annual theme of discussion, with many observing that things have changed from the days of having to tend to the crops and farm animals, a tradition that we have observed for the most part since it was introduced in Canada in 1908.

This week Premier Horgan was floating the usual theme of perhaps it's time to abandon this practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

Suggesting some kind of Cascadia convention to bring all the coastal states  of the US and British Columbia in sync on the plan to abolish the practice of having to change the clocks twice a year.

BC offers to work with US states on daylight saving time
Time may soon be up on changing BC 's clocks for Daylight Saving Time
BC might say goodbye to changing clocks, says premier
BC premier checks time change mood with US neighbours

More than a few people however noted that the Premier seems to be missing a rather significant mass of land when it comes to checking in with the neighbours on the time change planning ...


While the Premier readjusts his email list to include the Yukon for future consultations, if this item out of the state capital in California is an indication,  the nature of bureaucracy suggests  that we'll most likely be changing our clocks for a few more years to come.

There's no hard rule as to when the clocks should change overnight, though 2AM seems to be the moment of official observance, however most of us generally just move the clocks ahead when we head for bed, to take our slumber with one less hour of restful pause to enjoy for the night.

We all get our hour back  on November 3rd when we do this exercise of clock changing all over again.

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