Creston Mayor pushes for Mountain Time
By Nelson Daily Staff
There’s a fight brewing in Creston. And it’s not over the new recipe for the world-famous Kokanee Beer brewed in the small East Kootenay community.
This battle is over daylight saving time.
Creston Mayor Ron Toyota think the city should remain on Mountain Time while Regional District of Central Kootenay chairman and Area Director John Kettle feels the way the area bounces back and forth is just fine.
“There’s a lot of people who say it’s confusing,” Toyota said on the CBC News website. “I miss appointments.”
Kettle, who has done a straw poll, likes to see time stand still.
“I did a poll in my area,” Kettle said in the same news report.
“Seventy per cent were against any change in the time.”
“A lot of people just don’t like change,” Kettle said.
Clocks don’t change in the Creston Valley during the two times a year during the Daylight Saving Time format. The time remains the same; it’s the time change border that bounces from one side of Creston to the other — during the winter, Creston is on Mountain Time while in the summer it’s on Pacific time.
: it’s one of those rare places that doesn’t buy into the Daylight Saving Time scheme.
Toyota hopes to put a stop to the current situation in vote on the time during the next municipal election in November 2014.
“It’s all about getting finality from the citizens,” he said.
Most of BC changes time in March and November, except for Fort St. John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek and Creston
Those places do not use Daylight Saving Time.
Most of Saskatchewan, except Denare Beach and Creighton, also does not participate in Daylight Saving Time.
Time zone names and abbreviations in Canada change during Daylight Saving Time. Eastern Standard Time (EST) becomes Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and so forth with each time zone.
This year, Daylight Saving Time starts on Sunday, March 9, for other parts of B.C.
