It’s officially been the fall season for weeks, but when do we turn the clocks back to end daylight saving time? Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 3, in Canada. At 2 a.
m., we roll back the clocks by one hour and gain an extra bit of sleep. The practice can also be called “fall back” as clocks fall back by an hour, whereas in the spring we “spring forward” on time.
The general idea of adjusting time twice a year is to allow for better use of natural light, both in winter and summer. However, 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 87,000 signatures as of this writing, 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, including Saskatchewan and Yukon, along with a few communities in several provinces, 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 sto.