{"id":33729,"date":"2025-02-24T07:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambassadornews.org\/?p=33729"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T07:30:57","slug":"spring-forward-when-is-the-time-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadornews.org\/en\/spring-forward-when-is-the-time-change\/","title":{"rendered":"?Spring forward: When is the time change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The groundhogs have made their predictions, the sun seems to rise a bit earlier each week, and Canadians appear to be wondering when it\u2019s time to \u201cspring forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Search engine queries about daylight saving time have started to climb as Canadians look toward warmer days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">While daylight saving time is approaching, the tradition observed for more than a century doesn\u2019t take place until Sunday, March 9<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">While some parts of the country no longer observe the change, the majority of Canadians will set their clocks forward an hour on that day, with daylight time officially beginning at 2 a.m. Months later, they will \u201cfall back\u201d \u2013 setting the clocks an hour behind \u2013 at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">It\u2019s controversial move, and twice a year experts speak publicly about the impacts of the seasonal changes on our sleep and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/health\/article\/daylight-savings-can-negatively-affect-worker-productivity-research-says\/\">productivity<\/a>, as well as links to health complications such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/kitchener\/article\/clocks-fall-back-an-hour-as-daylight-time-ends-for-much-of-canada\/\">headaches and heart problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Politicians, too, have considered cutting it at times, but the consensus has largely been that it would be challenging for Canadians to stop the change \u2013 either making daylight saving time permanent, or ceasing the March switch \u2013 if the U.S. doesn\u2019t go along with it as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Trump wants to end daylight time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Recent comments from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/article\/why-does-trump-want-to-end-us-daylight-saving-time\/\">U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0suggest it\u2019s possible that at some point, the country may set the clocks one final time, and stop changing them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Posting when he was still president-elect, Trump said in early January that an end to daylight saving time might be on his party\u2019s agenda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">\u201cDaylight Saving Time is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113647254141876924\">inconvenient<\/a>, and very costly to our Nation,\u201d he wrote on social media, pledging that Republicans would use their \u201cbest efforts\u201d to put an end to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">That plan was endorsed at the time by Elon Musk, among other<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Five years ago, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that proposed making daylight saving time permanent, meaning there would be no change in the fall. 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