Daylight Saving Time ends overnight
Posted Oct 31, 2015 3:23 pm.
Last Updated Oct 31, 2015 4:39 pm.
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) officially ends for this year across North America at 2 a.m. local time Sunday.
This means clocks should be set back by one hour before you go to sleep.
There is no time change in some parts of Canada however, including the entire province of Saskatchewan, and parts of B.C., which stay on Standard Time year round.
New Zealander George Hudson proposed the modern idea of daylight saving in 1895.
Germany and Austria-Hungary organized the first implementation, starting on April 30th, 1916 to aid their war efforts.
The practice has received both advocacy and criticism. Putting clocks forward benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but can cause problems for evening entertainment and for other activities tied to sunlight, such as farming.
Although some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting to save electricity, modern research about how DST currently affects energy use is limited or contradictory.
It is known clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns.
