{"id":518275,"date":"2026-03-06T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518275\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:11:10","slug":"permanent-daylight-saving-time-isnt-the-answer-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518275\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent daylight saving time isn&#8217;t the answer. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, just like the early March weekend last year, and the year before, the clocks will spring forward an hour. Not only that, but also the age-old debate of whether or not we should ditch the time change will also reignite.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby announced his province\u2019s permanent change to Daylight Saving Time, however, we\u2019ve seen this movie playout before. And just as passionate as the public is to get rid of the switch, is equally how ecstatic they are to bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>Host Maria Kestane speaks to David Prerau, an expert in daylight saving time and author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time\u2018 They discuss the origin story of DST itself, the broader impacts of permanently making the switch, and the case for keeping the semi-annual clock change.<\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe to The Big Story podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/the-big-story\/id1399721065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>Spotify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend, just like the early March weekend last year, and the year before, the clocks will spring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-518275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}