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Makes you wonder what kind of weed we were smoking when we came up with this dumb idea in the first place.
yeah, no kidding. at least we currently have an extra hour of daylight to do weed, etc.
Clock change marks progress for some Canadians, but pain for others
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. in all provinces that observe practice as clocks spring ahead one hour
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Mar 08, 2026 • 1 minute read
Daylight saving time returns this weekend.
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 8, 2026, in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour. Photo by iStock /GETTY IMAGES
For some Canadians the twice-a-year changing of clocks is a welcome marker of progress through the seasons, but for many it’s just a nuisance that comes with fatigue, confused pets and even safety issues.
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. Sunday in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour. Mobile phones make the advance automatically, as long as your phone is set for a region that makes the change.
Saskatchewan and Yukon don’t observe a time change, and maintain permanent standard time.
Patricia Lakin-Thomas, a biology professor at York University, says the annual jump to daylight time has been known to increase car accidents, heart attacks and strokes.
Time regulation falls under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, and the Canadian Encyclopedia says Ottawa officially introduced daylight time in 1918 as a measure to increase wartime production.
British Columbia Premier David Eby announced last week that his province will stay on daylight time permanently and won’t be turning clocks back to rejoin standard time on Nov. 1.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes.
Almost five years ago, a referendum question was put to Albertans to keep daylight time year-round, but it failed by a narrow margin. The ballot offered only the option of adopting year-round daylight saving time, which Smith said might have been confusing.
She said last week she believes if you simply asked people if they want to stop changing their clocks, that would likely get overwhelming support.
In 2020, the Ontario government passed legislation to end the twice-yearly changing of clocks and make daylight time permanent — but only if Quebec and New York agreed to do the same.
In 2022, Atlantic Canada’s premiers decided to hold off on any move toward dropping the time change until they saw what neighbouring jurisdictions would do.
torontosun.com
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. in all provinces that observe practice as clocks spring ahead one hour
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Published Mar 08, 2026 • 1 minute read
Daylight saving time returns this weekend.
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 8, 2026, in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour. Photo by iStock /GETTY IMAGES
For some Canadians the twice-a-year changing of clocks is a welcome marker of progress through the seasons, but for many it’s just a nuisance that comes with fatigue, confused pets and even safety issues.
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. Sunday in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour. Mobile phones make the advance automatically, as long as your phone is set for a region that makes the change.
Saskatchewan and Yukon don’t observe a time change, and maintain permanent standard time.
Patricia Lakin-Thomas, a biology professor at York University, says the annual jump to daylight time has been known to increase car accidents, heart attacks and strokes.
Time regulation falls under provincial and territorial jurisdiction, and the Canadian Encyclopedia says Ottawa officially introduced daylight time in 1918 as a measure to increase wartime production.
British Columbia Premier David Eby announced last week that his province will stay on daylight time permanently and won’t be turning clocks back to rejoin standard time on Nov. 1.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes.
Almost five years ago, a referendum question was put to Albertans to keep daylight time year-round, but it failed by a narrow margin. The ballot offered only the option of adopting year-round daylight saving time, which Smith said might have been confusing.
She said last week she believes if you simply asked people if they want to stop changing their clocks, that would likely get overwhelming support.
In 2020, the Ontario government passed legislation to end the twice-yearly changing of clocks and make daylight time permanent — but only if Quebec and New York agreed to do the same.
In 2022, Atlantic Canada’s premiers decided to hold off on any move toward dropping the time change until they saw what neighbouring jurisdictions would do.
Clock change marks progress for some Canadians, but pain for others
Daylight time began at 2 a.m. Sunday in all provinces that observe the practice, and clocks sprung ahead by one hour.
Alberta now between provinces that don't change clocks — a time warp for shippers, road-trippers
Alberta could have greater benefits by keeping its alignment with the United States, where most states continue to use daylight savings time, than B.C. or Saskatchewan
Author of the article:Zac Delaney
Published Mar 09, 2026 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 5 minute read
Findings from the three-week Service Alberta survey regarding daylight savings time will be provided in early 2020.
Alberta is now sandwiched between two provinces that no longer change their clocks in the spring and fall. Even though this new dynamic could cause scheduling headaches for companies that ship across Western Canada, it still might make sense for Alberta to stay the course, logistics researchers say.
On Sunday, British Columbia’s clocks “sprang” forward for the last time to daylight saving time in a move that Premier David Eby said would make life easier for residents and reduce business disruptions.
But the change could also create some logistical hiccups across Western Canadian provinces, given that Manitoba and Alberta change their clocks twice a year while Saskatchewan and B.C. don’t. Anyone planning to move goods or take a road trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver will arrive at slightly different times during the winter compared to the summer.
Hossein Piri, assistant professor in operations and supply chain management at the University of Calgary, said even slight disruptions can cause scheduling and delivery errors, which can have an outsized impact on supply chains.
“Alberta, for example, is a very trade-oriented province, and a lot moves through supply chains that connect B.C. ports to prairie distribution centres,” Piri said.
“It might look minimal, but we are talking about thousands of deliveries, thousands of distribution centres, that even as you add a little bit of friction to their operation, it might be noticed,” Piri said.
Although there’s room for some logistical errors — and confusion for folks travelling across the West during some months of the year — those factors alone might not be enough to justify a change, he said, adding this new dynamic is likely manageable.
Consider, for example, that Alberta does more trade with the United States, which largely adheres to daylight saving time, than it does with other provinces.
Still, the current system of bi-annual clock swaps is far from perfect. Like a society getting over jet lag en masse, the first few days after the clocks change can be ugly, especially for children. Some data suggests that daylight saving time — specifically, the days immediately following the clock change — leads to negative health outcomes such as higher instances of heart attacks and more workplace safety incidents.
But Piri said he likes daylight saving time in Alberta for the extended sunlight in the summer and the relief from early morning darkness that it provides in the fall.
Alberta had the chance to change its fate in 2021 when a referendum left it up to residents whether the province would change to daylight saving time year-round. With 50.24 per cent opposed and 49.76 per cent in favour, Albertans chose not to break with the status quo, with an extremely narrow margin.
david eby
Premier David Eby announced the province of British Columbia is adopting permanent year-round daylight saving time to improve people’s overall health, reduce disruptions for families, simplify scheduling and provide an extra hour of evening light during the winter months. Government of B.C. Photo by Government of B.C. /Government of B.C.
Even with the public so divided on the thorny issue of springing forward and falling back, B.C.’s decision could prompt Alberta to similarly lock the clock. Premier Danielle Smith’s office recently suggested in a statement the change could provide “consistency” for the Western provinces.
“This raises the question of whether Alberta should also move to end the time change to create consistency across the Western provinces,” the premier’s office said.
“Our government will take these recent developments under consideration and evaluate whether a similar change would be in the best interest of Albertans.”
Jay Hyun, University of Alberta assistant professor of economics, doesn’t expect the lack of daylight saving time changes on either side of Alberta to have much effect on the province’s business or economic activity.
Hyun’s reasoning is simple. First, Saskatchewan has been in a similar circumstance since 1966 and has avoided significant negative side effects. Second, although the new dynamic may be a nuisance, it’s still predictable which makes it manageable.
“I think the negative economic impact will be kind of minimal. And I think the reason is, this is something (where) there’s no uncertainty behind this,” Hyun said.
While a mismatch among Western Canadian provinces could impact business, as Hyun pointed out, the challenges aren’t insurmountable, leaving the province to decide whether it wants consistency to the east and west — or with its neighbours to the south.
Here’s one more thing to consider: Alberta may actually be one of the few places left where the original purpose of daylight saving time could still make sense.
The concept first came to light in the late 1800s, but our modern concept of daylight saving time traces its roots back to energy conservation efforts during the First World War.
To help ration coal at the time, Germany sought to maximize the amount of daylight for workers and schools while reducing demand for energy to provide light in the dark and heat in the cold.
The idea was swept up by jurisdictions around the world, including Canada and the United States.
South of the border, Hawaii and Arizona are the only two states exempt from daylight saving time, and Calvin Schermerhorn, professor of history at Arizona State University, helped explain why the latter locked the clock.
Schermerhorn said the goal of conserving energy didn’t work so well in a state where a significant portion of its population lives in the Sonoran Desert.
“It actually costs more money, because instead of the fuel to heat spaces, we needed the air conditioning to cool spaces. To extend the day in a place that’s regularly 40 degrees by April, then you’re going to run into problems,” Schermerhorn said.
time change
A student looks out of the clock tower at MacEwan University in Edmonton. Alberta switches to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday March 9, 2014. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia
“Outraged” by daylight savings time, Arizonans elected to get rid of it in the 1960s, according to Schermerhorn.
Arizona continues to find itself stranded in a sea of states that still change their clocks, with Alberta facing a similar-but-opposite situation where it’s surrounded by provinces that don’t.
In fact, Schermerhorn said that within the Arizona state geography, the Navajo Nation — the biggest Indigenous reservation in the United States — opted to keep daylight saving time.
What’s more, within the Navajo Nation’s territory, there’s the Hopi Tribe, which chose to align with other parts of Arizona and did away with time changes.
When you drive through the state, depending on where you are, you could have to change your clock three times in one trip.
Arizona locked the clock because the practice failed to achieve its intended goal due to the environmental factors of the state, but that’s not necessarily the case in Alberta.
In Alberta, some residents, like Piri, might still enjoy the extra bit of daylight in the fall and spring. And Alberta’s cold climate certainly lends itself to maximizing the benefits of the warm sun in the freezing months of winter.
But if the province stays the course, planning road trips and goods shipments across the Western provinces will require more than just mapping out rest stops and gas stations.
zdelaney@postmedia.com
torontosun.com
Alberta could have greater benefits by keeping its alignment with the United States, where most states continue to use daylight savings time, than B.C. or Saskatchewan
Author of the article:Zac Delaney
Published Mar 09, 2026 • Last updated 10 hours ago • 5 minute read
Findings from the three-week Service Alberta survey regarding daylight savings time will be provided in early 2020.
Alberta is now sandwiched between two provinces that no longer change their clocks in the spring and fall. Even though this new dynamic could cause scheduling headaches for companies that ship across Western Canada, it still might make sense for Alberta to stay the course, logistics researchers say.
On Sunday, British Columbia’s clocks “sprang” forward for the last time to daylight saving time in a move that Premier David Eby said would make life easier for residents and reduce business disruptions.
But the change could also create some logistical hiccups across Western Canadian provinces, given that Manitoba and Alberta change their clocks twice a year while Saskatchewan and B.C. don’t. Anyone planning to move goods or take a road trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver will arrive at slightly different times during the winter compared to the summer.
Hossein Piri, assistant professor in operations and supply chain management at the University of Calgary, said even slight disruptions can cause scheduling and delivery errors, which can have an outsized impact on supply chains.
“Alberta, for example, is a very trade-oriented province, and a lot moves through supply chains that connect B.C. ports to prairie distribution centres,” Piri said.
“It might look minimal, but we are talking about thousands of deliveries, thousands of distribution centres, that even as you add a little bit of friction to their operation, it might be noticed,” Piri said.
Although there’s room for some logistical errors — and confusion for folks travelling across the West during some months of the year — those factors alone might not be enough to justify a change, he said, adding this new dynamic is likely manageable.
Consider, for example, that Alberta does more trade with the United States, which largely adheres to daylight saving time, than it does with other provinces.
Still, the current system of bi-annual clock swaps is far from perfect. Like a society getting over jet lag en masse, the first few days after the clocks change can be ugly, especially for children. Some data suggests that daylight saving time — specifically, the days immediately following the clock change — leads to negative health outcomes such as higher instances of heart attacks and more workplace safety incidents.
But Piri said he likes daylight saving time in Alberta for the extended sunlight in the summer and the relief from early morning darkness that it provides in the fall.
Alberta had the chance to change its fate in 2021 when a referendum left it up to residents whether the province would change to daylight saving time year-round. With 50.24 per cent opposed and 49.76 per cent in favour, Albertans chose not to break with the status quo, with an extremely narrow margin.
david eby
Premier David Eby announced the province of British Columbia is adopting permanent year-round daylight saving time to improve people’s overall health, reduce disruptions for families, simplify scheduling and provide an extra hour of evening light during the winter months. Government of B.C. Photo by Government of B.C. /Government of B.C.
Even with the public so divided on the thorny issue of springing forward and falling back, B.C.’s decision could prompt Alberta to similarly lock the clock. Premier Danielle Smith’s office recently suggested in a statement the change could provide “consistency” for the Western provinces.
“This raises the question of whether Alberta should also move to end the time change to create consistency across the Western provinces,” the premier’s office said.
“Our government will take these recent developments under consideration and evaluate whether a similar change would be in the best interest of Albertans.”
Jay Hyun, University of Alberta assistant professor of economics, doesn’t expect the lack of daylight saving time changes on either side of Alberta to have much effect on the province’s business or economic activity.
Hyun’s reasoning is simple. First, Saskatchewan has been in a similar circumstance since 1966 and has avoided significant negative side effects. Second, although the new dynamic may be a nuisance, it’s still predictable which makes it manageable.
“I think the negative economic impact will be kind of minimal. And I think the reason is, this is something (where) there’s no uncertainty behind this,” Hyun said.
While a mismatch among Western Canadian provinces could impact business, as Hyun pointed out, the challenges aren’t insurmountable, leaving the province to decide whether it wants consistency to the east and west — or with its neighbours to the south.
Here’s one more thing to consider: Alberta may actually be one of the few places left where the original purpose of daylight saving time could still make sense.
The concept first came to light in the late 1800s, but our modern concept of daylight saving time traces its roots back to energy conservation efforts during the First World War.
To help ration coal at the time, Germany sought to maximize the amount of daylight for workers and schools while reducing demand for energy to provide light in the dark and heat in the cold.
The idea was swept up by jurisdictions around the world, including Canada and the United States.
South of the border, Hawaii and Arizona are the only two states exempt from daylight saving time, and Calvin Schermerhorn, professor of history at Arizona State University, helped explain why the latter locked the clock.
Schermerhorn said the goal of conserving energy didn’t work so well in a state where a significant portion of its population lives in the Sonoran Desert.
“It actually costs more money, because instead of the fuel to heat spaces, we needed the air conditioning to cool spaces. To extend the day in a place that’s regularly 40 degrees by April, then you’re going to run into problems,” Schermerhorn said.
time change
A student looks out of the clock tower at MacEwan University in Edmonton. Alberta switches to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday March 9, 2014. Photo by Larry Wong /Postmedia
“Outraged” by daylight savings time, Arizonans elected to get rid of it in the 1960s, according to Schermerhorn.
Arizona continues to find itself stranded in a sea of states that still change their clocks, with Alberta facing a similar-but-opposite situation where it’s surrounded by provinces that don’t.
In fact, Schermerhorn said that within the Arizona state geography, the Navajo Nation — the biggest Indigenous reservation in the United States — opted to keep daylight saving time.
What’s more, within the Navajo Nation’s territory, there’s the Hopi Tribe, which chose to align with other parts of Arizona and did away with time changes.
When you drive through the state, depending on where you are, you could have to change your clock three times in one trip.
Arizona locked the clock because the practice failed to achieve its intended goal due to the environmental factors of the state, but that’s not necessarily the case in Alberta.
In Alberta, some residents, like Piri, might still enjoy the extra bit of daylight in the fall and spring. And Alberta’s cold climate certainly lends itself to maximizing the benefits of the warm sun in the freezing months of winter.
But if the province stays the course, planning road trips and goods shipments across the Western provinces will require more than just mapping out rest stops and gas stations.
zdelaney@postmedia.com
Alberta now between provinces that don't change clocks — a time warp for shippers, road-trippers
The change to B.C.'s daylight saving time could prompt Alberta to change too, but experts say that might not actually be necessary.
You lost the hour in the morning they cut off the bottom of the blanket, but you won an hour that they sewed back oon the top of the blanket.
Construction work just became a 9-5 job for a good part of the year. Unless we run thousands of gen sets every morning.
Fuck white people are stupid.
Would put Vancouver and Toronto on the same time, so good from a business perspective. Better for watching Lions games.
Alberta will be an hour behind BC now.
Just after 2 pm in Dryden, ON. Sunny but still cold for at least another week.
Alberta will be an hour behind BC now.
Just after 2 pm in Dryden, ON. Sunny but still cold for at least another week.
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