Time for a change: British Columbia decides to keep daylight saving time permanently

Time for a change: British Columbia decides to keep daylight saving time permanently
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Most residents of Canadian province wanted change for years – Trump’s unneighbourly rhetoric helped seal the dealSince 1918, the clocks in Creston, a town in eastern British Columbia, ran an hour ahead of nearby communities for half the year. For the other six months, they slipped back into sync. Not because the town changed them but because its neighbours changed back and forth from daylight saving time.Creston was an outlier: a community that effectively created its own time zone. But when residents in most parts of the province shift their clocks forward on Sunday, they will be doing it ...
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