With clocks moving back an hour on Sunday, Horgan failed to move the province to permanent daylight saving time. On several occasions, the prime minister has tried to work with politicians across the West Coast of the United States to get rid of the archaic practice of changing the clocks twice a year.

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The outgoing prime minister went so far as to make a final pitch a few weeks ago to the governors of California, Oregon and Washington, but was rebuffed. “The four of us signed an agreement called the Cascadia Corridor, and after we did all that signing, I turned it over and said ‘before we go, let’s all agree that this is the last time we don’t turn the clocks back,’” Horgan said. interview with Global News. Story continues below ad

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“And all these good people said they need congressional approval from Washington, D.C. I had the pen, I had the paper, and they said, ‘Look at the time, I’ve got to go.’ I tried. But I couldn’t get them to sign on the dotted line.” Three years ago, the province passed legislation to create a Pacific time zone where the time would stay the same year-round, as a result of the most popular public consultation in BC history, in which 93 per cent of people supported permanent summer time. Current trend

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The legislation creates a new name for the permanent time zone called Pacific Time. The new rules will not require areas in northeastern BC and the Kootenays, which currently observe Mountain Time, to change their observance practices. Story continues below ad But built into the legislation is a caveat that the province is waiting until the three states along the coast do the same. Earlier this year, the US Senate turned back the hands of the time, approving the elimination of the more than 100-year practice of changing the clocks twice a year. 1:58 Will BC follow Yukon in making daylight saving time permanent? The United States Congress still needs to approve the change before an individual state can move forward with it. “When I talked to the business community about it, they said they were all on board with it, but (so as not) to drive us away from our neighbors,” Horgan said. Daylight saving time ends this coming Sunday, November 6, at 2 AM The expectation is that British Columbia will follow what Washington, Oregon and Washington are doing, but won’t get rid of seasonal time changes until then. © 2022 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.