Tips To Deal With The End Of Daylight Savings Time

With October winding down, it will soon be time to move the clocks back from Daylight Saving Time (DST) to Standard Time.

This year the time change takes place on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 a.m. and Standard Time will remain in effect until March 8, 2026. Falling back is a yearly tradition that we have no choice but to deal with. We get an extra hour of sleep but the trade-off is less daylight in the evening hours.

Ontario is one of nine Canadian provinces that observes DST, which was first introduced in 1918 to increase production during wartime. The semi-annual time change has long been a topic of debate and the Ontario government has actually passed a bill to keep the province on Daylight Savings Time. But any change would also require some of our provincial and U.S. neighbours to join us since it has been argued that acting unilaterally could cause economic and trade complications.