Daylight Saving Time is Sunday

ICBC is once again asking drivers to get extra rest this weekend to prepare for the shift to Daylight Saving Time, pointing out that turning the clocks back results in more crashes, a fact that was proven by a study done at UBC. Move your clocks ahead an hour.

Daylight saving time officially re-emerges at 2am Sunday.

Let me guess – you’ve clicked on this because you would love to know when you get that hour of sleep Daylight Saving Time selfishly stole from you back.

Daylight saving time (DST) is created to provide an extra hour of evening sunlight, and will stay in effect for eight months until November 5, when daylight saving time ends for the year.

Studies show daylight saving time in the spring has been associated with a ten percent increase in heart attacks.

The name is Daylight Saving Time – not Daylight Saving’s Time or Daylight Savings Times.

If the time change does anything good, it’s that it provides an easy and important reminder to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Another study suggests that sleep deprivation on the Monday after the start of daylight saving time results in an increase in fatal vehicle accidents. “These simple things are among the best steps you can take to keep your loved ones safe if there’s a fire in your home”.

But the time change was repealed after each war, leaving mass confusion because each city adopted its own ordinances.

And while we may all gripe about losing an hour of sleep every spring, the Chicago Tribune does suggest one group of people who benefit from Daylight Saving Time. “And really it’s disruptive especially that not all states, not all countries switch their times or they do it at different times”.

States and US territories that do not observe daylight saving time include Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and most of Arizona.

This change in Daylight Saving Time kept Canada’s Daylight Saving Time pattern consistent with the United States which enacted into law a broad energy bill that extended Daylight Saving Time in the same manner.