Actually, no, DST must go

To be fair with everyone, especially in these months of less than sufficient daylight hours, we really should switch permanently to Pacific Standard Time, i.e. the timezone closest to the centre of the ideal timezone for our fair province.

As you can see from any solar noon calculator, for example this one: http://www.solar-noon.com/

Kelowna in particular, and BC in general, is about as ideally placed in the centre of our ideal timezone of GMT-8h as is possible.

If we went permanently to DST we would always be an average of an hour off ideal solar time year round, and that's never going to be fair to everyone in the winter months.

As you can see on this calendar:

http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/canada/kelowna?month=12&year=2015

If we went permanently to DST then we wouldn't have sunrise in winter until just minutes before 9 a.m.!

I'm definitely not a morning person, but I would want to be fair.

In the long days of summer months what difference does it really matter to most folks whether the sunlight lasts in the evening until 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.?

Maybe with the sun getting up just before 4 a.m. (instead of just before the still unheard of hour of 5 a.m.) I'd be more likely to get up earlier as well!

FYI, a complete set of sunrise and sunset times for the whole year can be calculated for any location, with or without DST applied to see the effect, using the following page:

http://www.sunearthtools.com/solar/sunrise-sunset-calendar.php

For a good history of all this madness about time changes have a read of the book titled "Spring Forward" by Michael Downing.  See also "Time Lord: Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" by Clark Blaise.

Greg A. Woods