| FREDERICTON - The provincial government will bring forward proposed
amendments to the
Time Definition Act
in the new year to harmonize daylight saving time in New Brunswick with
recent proposed changes in the United States and other Canadian
provinces. The adjustment will take effect in the spring of 2007, and
will mean New Brunswickers will move their clocks ahead one hour on the
second Sunday in March, and roll them back the first Sunday in November.
This will add three weeks in the spring and one week in the fall to
daylight saving time.
"These changes will bring our province in line with changes made to
daylight saving time by the United States, and which have been proposed
by a number of other provinces," Premier Bernard Lord said. "They will
ensure that our manufacturing, industrial, transportation and
communications links will remain synchronized with our neighbours and
trading partners to the south and west."
In a statement, Lord spoke of the importance of ensuring that New
Brunswick is synchronized with the rest of North America.
"We live in an integrated, global economy, and it is essential for
our province to live and work on the same schedule as those we do
business with," Lord said. "Maintaining this integration is an important
factor in our efforts to ensure New Brunswick has a strong and
attractive business climate, a hallmark of creating a competitive fiscal
and business environment through our Prosperity Plan, Greater
Opportunity."
In addition to making the adjustment to daylight saving time, the
government has decided not to adopt the eastern time zone.
"I asked New Brunswickers whether they felt it would be appropriate
to adopt the eastern time zone in order to bring our economy in direct
line with our major markets on the U.S. East Coast and Central Canada,"
Lord said. "We found that our province, our economy and our residents
are best served by remaining within the Atlantic time zone and adjusting
daylight saving time to match the U.S. and other provinces beginning in
March 2007." |
