Most Canadians will turn their clocks back by an hour Sunday, Nov. 5 for the switch from daylight savings time to local standard time.
Local standard time officially starts at 2 a.m.
Clocks are turned back one hour in the fall for what’s commonly called “the end of daylight savings time,” an idea first used in Germany during the First World War with the goal of saving energy. It aims to take advantage of daylight hours in the spring so that people don’t sleep through the first few hours of sunshine.
When the daylight period gets shorter in the fall, the clocks are readjusted to the proper “local standard time.”
