As the old expression goes, "Spring Forward, Fall Back."
Which, for most of us in Canada, means we get an extra hour of sleep this weekend when the clocks change early Sunday morning.
Clocks should be set back one hour as of 2 a.m. local time on Nov. 6.
Canada follows the new North American standard for daylight time, introduced in 2007: clocks are turned forward by one hour on the second Sunday in March and turned back on the first Sunday of November.
As CBC notes, several Canadian regions don't observe daylight time, including all of Saskatchewan, some border towns in Alberta and Manitoba, and a few pockets in Ontario and B.C. It's up to each province to decide whether or not they take part.
The National Research Council of Canada has more information on who does and doesn't observe daylight saving time.
Daylight time was first enacted in Germany in 1915, though the idea had been around for more than a century, CBC reports:
Benjamin Franklin suggested the idea more than once in the 1770s while he was an emissary to France. But it wasn't until more than a century later that the idea of daylight time was taken seriously. William Willett, an English builder, revived the idea in 1907, and eight years later Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time. The reason: energy conservation. Britain quickly followed suit and instituted British Summer Time in 1916.
Addendum: Spinner Canada has compiled the Top 10 songs to set your alarm clock to to help you celebrate the extra hour of daylight.
NOTE: The technical term for the occasion is daylight saving time, not daylight savings time.