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By Michael Reeve

TIME CHANGE

Kamloopsian Holmes excited to see removal of bi-annual time change after decade of advocacy

Mar 2, 2026 | 4:45 PM

KAMLOOPS — For more than a decade Kamloops resident Tara Holmes has strongly advocated for the end of the twice annual time change.

Holmes had managed to progress the cause during Premier John Horgan’s time in office as B.C. adopted legislation to eliminate seasonal time changes. Now with Monday’s (March 2) announcement from David Eby, more than 90 per cent of British Columbia will now stay on daylight saving time around the year.

“93 per cent surveyed wanted to stay on DST (Daylight Saving Time),” said Holmes. “Tourism BC and the Chamber, when we spoke with them, they thought it would be even better for business as well.”

“But ultimately the interesting thing, and a lot of people need to know this, we don’t change our clock every six months, it’s eight months and four months. That’s the part that is crazy. Our body is on daylight time for eight months of the year, so it’s almost like what is the point in going back that four months.”

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Holmes expects there will be a few emails that come her way from people who are opposed to ending the time change, though she notes much like other major changes from the past 50 years, soon enough people won’t remember the “old way of doing things.”

“I remember when the bars announced that there was going to be no more smoking in them, they thought that they were all going to close down,” Holmes told CFJC News. “When we had to wear seatbelts, people where like ‘they cant make us wear seatbelts,’ and now we just do it like it’s no problem.”

“All of those places that laugh at us for changing the time, they don’t talk about the time change anymore. Also in a year or two, we aren’t even going to discuss it anymore, people in 30 years from now are going to laugh and say I can’t believe we changed the time.”