Premier John Horgan says he will be encouraging his fellow premiers to introduce legislation in their province's to get rid of seasonal time changes.

European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to scrap from 2021 the practice of moving clocks forward by an hour in spring then back again in the autumn, two years later than the EU executive initially proposed.

Support has been growing in British Columbia — as well as the U.S. states of California, Oregon, Washington — to leave the clocks alone.