Canada's clocks go forward this weekend (11/3) but not for another two weeks for the UK (25/3).

So from Sunday 11th until Sat 24th the time difference will be an hour less than usual.

I've been waiting for this, I can go fishing for an hour longer.

Is that fishing season open for you again then ?

Open all year round although up until a few days ago there was no herring so no salmon eating them. I went out last night to pick up my crab pots and got a few keepers but while it was sunny, it was very cold and rough.

I'm hoping the extra sunlight at night will melt all this snow.

Do you actually believe you‘re changing the time the sun goes up and down? In Saskatchewan we suffer under no such illusions.

They don't do it in Sask because they don't want to burn the crops.

‘The sun goes up and the sun goes down,
And the hands on the clock go ‘round and ‘round
And I just get up, and it‘s time to lay down,
Life gets tee-jus, don‘t it?

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Actually yes. Largely because the time on your wristwatch is totally arbitrary. The Sun of course goes about its own business (or rather the planet does). But time of day is a human construct and adjustable for human convenience.

But if I follow the sun to rise and sleep without a clock and you say the hour is one ahead or behind adjusted to suit retail hours isn‘t your system the artificial one? Why not just bow our heads to nature and admit there are fewer daylight hours in winter? We get up in the dark and there‘s no getting around
it.
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Think about it. Moving the clocks back, forward, or sideways, certainly doesn't effect the period of time between sunrise and sunset.

What it effects is what ratio of normal human activities are carried out out in daylight (widely held to be preferable) or at night. Of course it's artificial, but convenient for most people.

When I was much younger and living in a smog ridden Los Angeles I proposed (slightly tongue in cheek) a radical solution, which was to move the standard working period per day to dusk to dawn.

At a stroke the smog problem would've been gone, but true genius is often inconvenient.

We‘ve found dst to be not worth the hassle here and though some still want a provincial referendum on the issue, the last time it came up the government decided it wasn‘t worth doing (presumably due to lack of dst supporters). If the ratio of normal activity performed in daylight is the reason for adjusting the clock, (bearing in mind the pitiful few hours we have to perform them in during the dead of winter) you may get to drive home in the fading light but have to see black through the office window for an extra hour in the morning. Just as depressing.. I think we‘re better off to bite the bullet and embrace the season the same way we do 4:30 AM sunrise in summer. I suspect DST is driven by shopkeepers who want us on the sidewalks after work.

What happens to the turtle which the Earth sits on ? It surely gets more sunlight ?

I look forward to this day all winter. In my mind, by Monday morning I can officially say "Look, it's nearly summer" !

It's only beneficial for the Fifth Elephant apparently