Tonight it's Time to Fall Back

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This is it, the last time you will FALL BACK in October.

Tonight, before you go to bed, (or at 2:00 in the morning if you like), it will be time to turn the clocks back one hour as most areas leave Daylight Savings Time to return to Standard Time.  There are a few exceptions in B.C. including Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek.  Those communities  will not be changing clocks as they didn’t "Spring forward" last April.  The same goes for Creston in the East Kootenays.

For the rest of the province, it will be  the last time this time change is made on the last Sunday of October.  Starting next year, the  time change will be  moved up  three weeks so we will "spring forward" on the second Sunday in March, (it used to be the first Sunday in April) and then "fall back" the first Sunday in  November.  In 2007 we will spring forward March 11 and fall back Nov. 4.

"British Columbians overwhelmingly supported aligning daylight saving time dates with the United States and other Canadian provinces," Attorney General Wally Oppal said. "The results of a public consultation  held this past spring showed that many people welcomed having an extra  hour of daylight in the evening. We also heard from business people,
particularly the tourism, travel and financial sectors, who recognized  that it would make sense for their operations if most of the continent observed the same time changes."

During the month-long public consultation, government received 4,296 written and electronic submissions from the public, business and other organizations. Over 90 per cent were in favour of the change.

"It is critical to our economic interests to remain in sync with our biggest trading partner, the United States," said Jerry Lampert, president of the Business Council of British Columbia. "Without this change, we could lose two hours, or 25 per cent, of each business day for four weeks of each year."

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