Millions of lucky folks living in British Columbia, Canada’s third most-populous province, will be stuck with their final-ever “Spring Forward” on Sunday morning – and “Fall Back” come November – as the BC Attorney General this week announced the government “will adopt permanent, year-round daylight saving time after clocks shift forward an hour on Sunday, March 8, 2026. People and businesses will have eight months to prepare for the elimination of the next time change, previously scheduled for Nov 1, 2026. Eliminating twice-yearly time changes reduces disruptions for families, simplifies scheduling and provides an extra hour of evening light during the winter months.”

Lucky bastards. All legislative movement to switch to year-round Daylight Saving Time in the US has been stuck for years. Plenty of state legislatures have passed laws doing so but it’s meaningless without any change to the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which maddeningly allows states to stop observing DST if they so choose but specifically prohibits doing the opposite as British Columbia just did – and Yukon did back in 2020. So come November, after decades of being in sync year-round, Vancouver and Seattle, two metros separated by a national border but close enough in proximity and with cultural and economic ties will abruptly find themselves an hour apart.

There probably aren’t going to be much if any other similarly sudden WTFs in the near or middle-term that might finally prompt Congress to end this madness once and for all – despite having come so tantalizingly close back in 2022 when then-Senator Marco Rubio’s bill for year-round DST passed the chamber by a fluke unanimous consent only for then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to fail to bring it to the House floor – so here’s hoping the new difference between Washington State and British Columbia sparks a renewed momentum. Everyone’s in for a lousy week coming up, nobody likes seeing the sun set before 5 PM in November and December, let’s just get this bullshit over with.