LETTER: Why B.C. \u2013 and especially Surrey \u2013 doesn\u2019t need permanent standard time<\/p>\n
Published 6:00 pm Thursday, October 15, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
I look forward to the move to permanent daylight time (PDT) and lament the \u201cscientists\u201d who want permanent standard time over permanent daylight time by claiming it is \u201cbetter for our health\u201d or \u201cbetter for school children.\u201d They are advocating a fallacy.<\/p>\n
When I was in high school, every single 6 a.m. wake-up in the morning was already in the dark\u2014that wouldn\u2019t be fixed by adopting standard time over daylight time. But every afternoon walk home after my extracurricular activities were done was already after sunset\u2014typically by 4:30 to 5 p.m. If I were still in high school, that extra hour of sun would make a difference to me.<\/p>\n
It is such a blatant fallacy to suggest that B.C. youth and children would \u201cget more sunlight\u201d from a PST schedule over PDT. Schoolchildren would already be indoors for every minute of extra sun in the morning afforded by PST. Extracurriculars after school? Kiss the sun goodbye.<\/p>\n
This issue is exacerbated here in Surrey, where overcrowded schools mean staggered starts\u2014many students here wake up earlier than anywhere else in the province. PST would plunge these students into eternal darkness for every minute spent outside of school.<\/p>\n
Best,<\/p>\n
Daryl Dela Cruz, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Why B.C. \u2013 and especially Surrey \u2013 doesn\u2019t need permanent standard time Published 6:00 pm Thursday, October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-934721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934721","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=934721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}