Fall is here which means daylight saving time will end soon.

This year, clocks will go back by an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 2, returning to standard time.

With clocks rolling back by an hour, Canadians will gain back an extra hour of sleep that one night. However, late fall through winter, days will start to feel shorter, with earlier sunrises, and sooner sunsets.

In spring, clocks move forward in March. This means Canadians will lose one hour of sleep that night, and sunrise and sunset will be an hour later.

Daylight savings, which began in Canada in 1908, is an on-going topic of discussion amongst researchers and politicians due to potential health risks.

Daylight saving time across Canada

While most of Canada still uses daylight savings, each municipality in Canada can decide if they will use daylight saving time.

Areas in British Columbia like Chetwynd, Creston, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, and Fort St. John do not use daylight saving time, while the rest of the province does.

In Saskatchewan, most of the province does not use daylight saving time, except for some locations, including Lloydminster, Creighton and Denare Beach.

Daylight saving time is not used in Yukon.

Daylight saving time in the U.S.

Canada and the U.S. have been following the same daylight saving time dates since 2007.

In a post on X, U.S. President Donald Trump said in December 2024 that his party will do its best to eliminate daylight saving time, calling it “inconvenient” and “very costly.”

The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2024

The Sunshine Protection Act, a proposal to make daylight saving time permanent across the U.S., was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and the House in January 2025.

If passed, the bill would make daylight saving time the new, permanent standard time and end the need to change clocks twice a year.