Daylight Saving Time

What is Daylight Saving Time?

Daylight Saving Time is a variant of a time zone used to accommodate the long days and short nights or vice versa by moving clocks a hour forward in spring and a hour backward in fall.

When does this change happen?

For Alberta from November to March we are in Mountain Standard Time, the normal time zone in Alberta, from March to Mid-November Alberta uses Mountain Daylight Time 1 hour ahead of Standard Time.

How does Daylight Saving Time affect our health?

At 9:00 PM in the heart of summer it will still look like 5:00 PM in DST (Daylight Saving Time) so when it actually time to sleep you are still wide awake due to the fact that it is bright outside and our bodies think it is not time to sleep. When it does become fully dark (around 10PM-12AM) and you go to sleep, for most people you don't really get a lot of sleep due to the fact that most people wake up early for school or work (usually around 4-7 AM) so you would only get 4-7 hours of sleep other than the expected 9-10 hours of sleep per day, and the fact that in Standard Time 6AM looks like a normal dim sunrise whereas DST 6AM looks like the middle of the night! This tells our bodies that it is still not time to wake up due to the genes we collected from the start of the human race.

By Aayansh Bhanuprakash

Published 4:23 PM March 15, 2025