Fall back: When does the time change?

The signs of the upcoming autumn season are here as Canadians are starting to notice the skies getting darker earlier, and brightening later.

While autumn officially arrives on Sunday, Sept. 22, the end of daylight saving time – also called daylight time or daylight savings time — is approaching in November. The time change is still more than a month away, but a top trending search online Monday morning showed Google users are already wondering when they’ll be changing the clocks back.

For some, it’s good news since people will gain an extra hour of sleep.

The majority of Canadians’ clocks will be turned back an hour when daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 a.m. local time.

Most parts of Canada will be observing the time change, though some municipalities decided not to take part in the twice yearly practice.

Yukon and most of Saskatchewan don’t change their clocks all year. There’s no daylight saving time as well in parts of the following places in Canada: Nunavut, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

Canada isn’t cancelling daylight saving time, though some Canadians favour getting rid of it because they think the twice yearly change is a health hazard. Irene Shone’s Change.org petition, which has the more than 86,000 signatures so far, is calling on the federal government to end daylight saving time. The Canadian Sleep Society, which promotes healthy sleep, and the American Medical Association also want to eliminate daylight saving time.

Ontario passed the Time Amendment Act in November 2020 in order to end the bi-annual change of clocks, but Ontario’s attorney general said the government would only implement it if Quebec and the state of New York are on board.

With files from CTVNews.ca’s Hunter Crowther