The clocks go back Sunday morning which marks the end of “daylight saving time” and the start of “Standard time”. Canadians in general can expect to gain an hour in the middle of the night with the end of “daylight saving time”. Enjoy your extra hour, everyone!

British Columbia is making daylight saving time permanent, along with at least seven U.S. states. Arizona and Hawaii stay on standard time year-round.

There has never been global agreement on the twice-yearly clock changes. Mexico and most of Europe switched last weekend, while Australia moved to daylight saving last month. Some 40 countries in the Middle East and Asia never change their clocks.

The European Union wants to scrap the time shifts by 2021. Could be somewhat confusing in Ireland in the event of Brexit.

At least no one is suggesting returning to the approach of some of our ancient forebears. They took the amount of daylight in each season and divided it by 12, making each hour longer in the spring and shorter in the fall.