{"id":951951,"date":"2026-10-30T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951951\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:50:14","slug":"premier-says-province-may-have-to-consider-ending-twice-yearly-time-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951951\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier says Province May Have to Consider Ending Twice-Yearly Time Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793368214_924_tony-wakeham.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Premier says Province May Have to Consider Ending Twice-Yearly Time Change\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of confusion heading into this weekend as the clocks will fall back in some areas and stay put in others.<\/p>\n<p>Places like Alberta, Manitoba and parts of British Columbia are ditching the change to standard time and sticking with daylight saving.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec is also planning to make a change within the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Tony Wakeham says he hasn\u2019t received any formal requests to consider a time change, but says it will likely have to be considered for the simple sake of doing business.<\/p>\n<p>He says when larger provinces start making changes, it messes with a lot of business matters. Wakeham says it\u2019s something to look at to make sure NL aligns with the rest of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>He plans to raise the matter when the premiers get together in December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Premier Tony Wakeham (VOCM News) There\u2019s a lot of confusion heading into this weekend as the clocks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-951951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951951","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=951951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}