Daylight Saving Time hits the “fall back” on the clock this Sunday at 2 a.m.

So everyone in Ontario sets their clocks back one whole hour. That simple change of time that’s been going on widely since the First World War is said to give you an extra hour of sleep because you supposedly gain an hour — that’s the same hour you lost in the spring, when you set your clock an hour forward. Not everyone can sleep in , and not everyone relives that special back-and-forth hour.

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WHERE AND WHY DID IT ALL START?

Well, the first known place to turn their clocks forward was in what’s now Thunder Bay around 1908, only they did it in July. It had nothing to do with war, but rather for an extra hour of daylight for recreation outdoors and an extra hour for farmers and railroad

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