Change your clocks and check alarm batteries this weekend

Set your clocks one hour ahead at bedtime Saturday as daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8.

While updating your clocks, residents are reminded to change the batteries in their smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and to clean the alarms by vacuuming any dust with a soft brush attachment.

Despite an ongoing push to end daylight saving time, Ontario continues to “spring forward” and “fall back”.

This year, British Columbia decided it will shift time for the last time this weekend as it has moved to permanently end the practice – stating it would make life easier for families, reduce disruption.

A bill to end daylight saving time received royal assent in Queen’s Park on Nov. 30, 2020. However, the change is hinged to New York State and Quebec also stopping the twice annual time change.

The Canadian government introduced daylight saving time in 1918, as a means of increasing productivity during wartime. The practice ended post-war, but picked up again during the Second World War and has remained in place since.