It's time to fall back – before you go to bed on Saturday night, turn clocks back one hour.
Every spring, Daylight Savings Time (DST) starts, and the clocks spring forward by an hour on the second Sunday in March.
Then each autumn, at the end of DST, they fall back one hour. People are asked to make the shift at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. The fall back always happens on the first Sunday in November.
Most provinces and territories in Canada observe this shift, which occurs yearly on the first Sunday of November – with the exception of Saskatchewan and Yukon, which follow standard time year-round.
In 2019, the B.C. government found 93 per cent of survey respondents want to end the time change, and it passed legislation that would make DST permanent. However the province is waiting on West Coast states in the U.S. to follow suit – Washington, Oregon and California. At the time, the U.S. states were said to be enacting similar legislation, but no change has been signalled.
The public engagement had 223,000 survey respondents, and the B.C. government said the change to year-round DST was supported by industry and occupational groups.
