{"id":18165,"date":"2025-02-26T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/daylight-saving-time-2025-heres-when-you-should-set-your-clocks-forward-national\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:01:45","slug":"daylight-saving-time-2025-heres-when-you-should-set-your-clocks-forward-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/daylight-saving-time-2025-heres-when-you-should-set-your-clocks-forward-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight saving time 2025: Here\u2019s when you should set your clocks forward – National"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Good news, Canada: In less than a couple of weeks it will be time to set those clocks forward, marking the beginning of daylight saving tim<\/a>e (DST) for 2025.<\/p>\n

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Daylight saving time will begin this year on Sunday, March 9, at 2 a.m. local time. While we might lose an hour of sleep by \u201cspringing forward,\u201d it also marks the day when we\u2019ll begin to notice those longer daylight hours.<\/p>\n

Canadians in most time zones should set their manual devices ahead an hour on Saturday, March 8 before they head to bed. Smartphones, smartwatches and other digital and Wi-Fi enabled devices, however, will likely automatically adjust while you\u2019re sleeping. (It doesn\u2019t hurt to check them when you wake up on March 9, just to be sure!)<\/p>\n

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Daylight saving time is the eight-month-long period between March and November when the majority of the country adjusts their clocks.<\/p>\n

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By \u201cspringing forward\u201d in March, we allow for more daylight in the spring and summer months. By \u201cfalling back\u201d in November, we allow more daylight in the mornings.<\/p>\n

Not all Canadians adhere to daylight saving time, however. Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, and some parts of Quebec, Ontario and B.C. stay on standard time all year round.<\/p>\n

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Michael Antle, a psychology professor at the University of Calgary, previously told Global News that during wartime in the early 1900s DST was also used to save energy<\/a>. By shifting work schedules, employers wouldn\u2019t have to turn on incandescent lights until workers were almost done their shifts.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe idea was one, to give us a little bit more leisure time in the evenings when we have really long days in the summers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s not needed anymore with various energy-saving lightbulbs, and with fewer needs around having an extra hour in the evening, Antle said more studies are showing the negative impacts of DST<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve caused your body clock, your circadian clock, to get out of sync with the day-night cycle and your work schedule, and you\u2019re forcing people to get up and go to bed, go to work and go to school an hour earlier than they\u2019re used to.\u201d<\/p>\n

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