The first day of fall is on Sunday, Sept. 22. But that is not the day our clocks fall back an hour, as daylight saving time ends more than a month after the start of autumn.
You’ve heard the phrase “spring forward, fall back” to signify the time to change your clocks. Daylight saving time for us Canadians ends on Sunday, Nov. 3 — that’s when we roll the clocks back one hour and gain an extra bit of sleep.
There’s been a lot of chatter over the years about scrapping the practice. Ontario passed a law back in 2020 to stop observing daylight saving time; however, nothing has happened with that because the Ontario plan is dependent on Quebec and New York state also scrapping the practice. A , started by Irene Shone, which has received more than 86,000 signatures, is asking the Canadian government, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and several government ministers, to stop the daylight saving time practice and to instead have a permanent standard time.
There are areas of Canada that don’t observe daylight saving time. Saskatchewan and Yukon don’t, and there are a few communities in several provinces that don’t either, including a few areas of northwestern Ontario. According to , fewer than 40 per cent of the world’s countries use daylight saving time.
The publication points out that in North America, eight countries observe DST, 11 stopped and 20 never have. Also, not all countries make the time change on the same dates. Canada.