Saturday night to send you back in time, by one hour ...

The annual ritual of adjusting your clocks (or letting your electronic devices do it for you) takes place this weekend, with British Columbians getting an hour of time back when the clocks go back one hour prior to retiring for the night.

The shift for the clocks marks our migration into the winter season ahead, where the Daylight becomes shorter in supply and the dark hours make for a bookend to the 8 to 5 period of the day.

All of which serves as a reminder to exercise caution on the roads and for pedestrians to also be aware of their surroundings, particularly when crossing streets in the city.

The time change is also a moment to check your smoke detectors and other safety items in your home, replacing batteries and testing items to ensure that they are in working order.

Motorists should also give extra attention when they take to the roads on Monday morning, one study into the impact of time change, is that car accidents increase by 20 percent in the first workday following the changing of the clocks.

As you head towards changing the clocks, some notes on the time change of tomorrow and your extra hour of sleep for Sunday morning.

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The clocks 'fall back' an hour this weekend

And to explain the whole concept? Well let's go to the video shall we ...



The need for the advancing and reversing of time may soon be  a thing of the past in British Columbia however, with continued calls for the government to scrap the time change requirements.

The topic came up at this years UBCM gathering in Vancouver, with calls for the Premier to have the government hold public consultations on the theme of abolishing the time change.