Don’t forget: turn your clock back an hour at 2 am

Daylight Saving Time, or Daylight Savings Time, as a few call it, ended at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1, 2015. Most people usually set clocks back before heading to bed Saturday night. After all, you get more daylight and you save more money on lighting bills.

Residents of Hawaii, Arizona and other territories of the US don’t have to change the clock, as the DST doesn’t include those regions.

Daylight Saving Time ends tomorrow morning.

While daylight saving time is not used by the majority of the world’s countries, its use is widespread in most European and North American countries.

“Assuming a linear effect in other months, the implied social savings from a permanent, year-long change in ambient light would be nearly 20 times higher”, they conclude, or several billion dollars annually.

Clocks will “spring forward” at 2 a.m. March 13 next year.

For more information, visit the Stop the Time Change in British Columbia petition online.

The idea of saving energy by switching to Daylight Saving Time has gone on for years, but is now being disputed. There was a reported 7 percent decrease in crime when the DST was extended in 2007.

The Germans are thought to be the first to institute the Daylight Saving Time of springing forward and falling back of the clock to help save fuel costs during the war and better link up with people’s daytime activities.

In 2016, Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 13. People die during the period directly following the spring shift, but the data on traffic accidents show that accidents occur much more often during the dark or lower illumination than during daylight hours. Firefighters also say it is an excellent time to change the batteries in smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

1945-1966 – There is no federal law regarding Daylight Saving Time. Red Cross officials take the opportunity to encourage citizens to change the batteries of smoke alarm devices.

Daylight Saving Time was introduced to save resources.

Here’s what you need to know about the time change this weekend and the ongoing debate on whether to get rid of the practice. These savings come in the summer months of DST, not the Standard Time months we are about to enter.

With time, the body clock adjusts on its own.