Daylight Saving Debate Continues In Nova Scotia Ctv News

Clocks change on the weekend. Should Nova Scotia join other provinces and nix daylight saving time change? The “spring forward” time change is scheduled for this weekend and it’s stirring up the debate again around whether daylight saving time is still a good idea. Nova Scotians will lose an hour of sleep overnight Saturday into Sunday, which means Monday morning will hit especially hard for students and commuters. For example, what was 7 a.m. on Saturday will change to 8 a.m.

by Monday, so the alarm clock will go off earlier to start the work and school week. That will surely have some tired folks grumbling and questioning whether it’s all worth it. The history of daylight saving time To answer that, it’s best to start at the beginning. Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase “early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” and he first toyed with the idea in the late 1700s. But the concept stayed dormant for more than a century.

British builder William Willett took up the cause in a more serious way in 1907. He argued people were “wasting daylight” and took the proposal to parliament many times but died in 1915 before it was ever adopted. Here in Canada, the Ontario town of Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) experimented with DST in 1908 but it didn’t take hold on a bigger scale until 1916, when the Germans put it in place to ration energy during the First World War.

Most of the Allied countries followed suit for the same reasons, but it was only considered a wartime measure so Canada and the United States didn’t accept it as a common practice until 1966. - B.C. makes daylight time permanent after years of promises - Alberta may follow B.C. on making daylight time permanent: premier - Advertisement 1Story continues below Modern annoyance with the switch Now that 60 years have passed, there’s been a rise of countries and people around the world who are literally tired of it all.

China, Japan, India, Brazil and Argentina are just some of the roughly 140 nations that don’t use DST and there is a groundswell building in parts of North America to scrap it. Saskatchewan, Hawaii and Arizona have already opted out, and 19 states have lobbied the American federal government to stay on standard time year round. British Columbia and Ontario both want out of DST in Canada.

Here in Nova Scotia, because of where the province’s geographic location falls within the Atlantic time zone boundaries, the time change seems to serve the right purpose. The sun is expected to rise at 6:42 a.m. on Saturday and set at 6:09 p.m. Once the clocks spring forward, the projections change to a 7:40 a.m. sunrise and a 7:10 p.m. sunset for Sunday. By April 1, the sun will be coming up before 7 a.m. in Nova Scotia.

So there will be a short-term adjustment, but the big picture would look much different if the province stayed on standard time all year. For instance, the longest day of the year in 2025 was June 21, when the sun rose at 5:29 a.m. and set at 9:03 p.m. That is with DST in effect. Without it in place, the sun would have come up at 4:29 a.m.

and set at 8:03 p.m., so the effects of staying in standard time at that point in the year are open to debate.

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