(Added March 6, 2014): Have you read “Make Time for 2014 Daylight Savings Time in Canada” for the 2014 dates for Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time? Well, enjoy reading the rest of this article from 2013, if you insist!

When is it Daylight Savings Time for 2013 in Canada and in the United States? What about Europe’s Summer Time? For that matter, what is Daylight Savings Time, anyway? While we’re at it, when is Standard Time?

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When is it Daylight Savings Time in Canada and in the USA?

Most of Canada leaps ahead one hour to Daylight Saving Time early on Sunday morning, March 10, 2013, by skipping past 2am to 3am.

The Canadian exceptions are “much of Saskatchewan, small region of British Columbia, small region of Nunavut Territory, small region of Quebec, and a small region of Ontario”.

May I suggest that people living in or near “Fort St John, Charlie Lake, Taylor and Dawson Creek in British Columbia, Creston in the East Kootenays, and most of Saskatchewan (except Denare Beach and Creighton)” contact their local authorities to learn whether they are exceptional in a Daylight Saving Time fashion?

Most of the USA follows suit at the same time on March 10, 2013. The exceptions are “Hawaii, Arizona with exceptions (so parts of Arizona do go to Daylight Savings Time, apparently), Midway Islands, Wake Island, and a small region of Alaska”.

When does Europe Switch to Summer Time?

The United Kingdom and much of Europe will switch to Summer Time on March 31, 2013.

What is Daylight Savings Time?

The phrase, “Daylight Savings Time”, means that we “save” an hour of daylight in the warmer part of the year by adjusting our clocks. This allows more time outdoors. It’s been argued that this saves energy for lighting; some say it’s hogwash. Regardless, for practical purposes, Daylight Saving Time or DST is simply this one-hour adjustment from Standard Time.

By the way, the idea for “Standard Time” is that the sun should be at its daily zenith, or highest point in the sky, exactly at noon. This would mean every line of longitude would have it’s own noon. Standard Time created twenty-four time zones, so everyone in a much larger area could set the clock to the same time.

How to Leap Ahead to Daylight Savings Time?

Set your clocks forward one hour before going to sleep on Saturday night. When you wake up on Sunday morning, you’re on Daylight Savings Time.

How to Adjust my Windows Computer’s System Clock to Daylight Savings Time?

According to “Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center“, Microsoft advises that computers running Microsoft operating systems, such as Windows 8, should automatically adjust their own system clocks in accordance with your regional practices. Microsoft advises allowing “Windows Update” through the Internet to perform the magic.

Apple and Linux operating systems, and cell phones, have their own processes which I’m going to let you discover on your own.

What’s the Opposite of Daylight Savings Time? It’s “Standard Time”

The story of the origin of Standard Time is outside this article’s scope, but the notion of dividing the world into standard time zones came before Daylight Savings Time. Many of us know at least our own time zone, such as “Eastern Standard Time”.

When is Standard Time?

Canada and the USA fall back to Standard Time early on the Sunday morning of Nov. 3, 2013.

The United Kingdom and the same countries of Europe will return to their Standard Time on Sunday Oct. 27, 2013.

Remember to Reset Your Travel Alarm Clock

We all need a travel alarm clock. It’s a no-brainer for business travel, but even on vacation we need to get out of the motel by check-out time.

I noticed that this digital LCD model has some great user reviews from buyers in the USA. It uses one not-included AAA battery, and has a short snooze timer so you won’t be late starting your travel day. The advantage of the AAA battery is you don’t need to re-set this alarm clock after each leg of your journey. But you do need to reset any alarm clock for Daylight Saving Time.

It’s available in Canada and in the USA. I’m puzzled why the Canadian version is called “Timex” when the American title agrees with the photograph that says “Elgin”.

Reference, except for the Microsoft Support link noted above:

• “Daylight Saving Time Around the World 2013” has Daylight Savings Time information on a country-by-country basis.

Looking for Annual Toronto Events or Public Service Announcements?

The switch to Daylight Saving Time is an one example of several annual events that I may cover as a public service announcements.

Usually, however, I focus on annual events in Toronto, especially the free or frugal Toronto events that deserve more publicity than they can afford to advertise.

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