Alberta will be going to daylight saving time all year round. It will be Daylight all year. Premier Danielle Smith says she would like the time zone in Alberta to be known as Alberta Time.
Smith says polling shows the clear majority of Albertans want the same time all year. No more changing of the clocks.
Premier Danielle Smith and her UCP government says it will go to the Alberta legislature for debate this week.
This means the time we are in now will be the time we are in for 12 months of the year. In the fall, the clocks will not fall back and next spring, the clocks will not spring forward.
Smith says with Alberta’s neighbours not changing their clocks, Alberta had to decide what to do.
Alberta time would be the same time as Saskatchewan year-round and an hour later than B.C.’s Pacific time year-round.
The premier says in the winter, rather than going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark, you will go to work in the dark but it will stay light longer at the end of the work day when folks are heading home.
She says with the extra light when you go home you can do more things in the evening. The premier also thinks you might save a few dollars because you are not having to race home to turn on more lights.
Smith says time will tell how Albertans will respond.
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