We gain an hour of sleep during the night from Saturday to Sunday due to the time change.
So we're going back to Eastern Standard Time. Officially, it is at 2 a.m. that we must set our watches and manual clocks back one hour and it will actually be 1 a.m.
We will return to Eastern Daylight Time just before spring, on the second Sunday in March.
Many people wonder about the relevance of changing the time even today.
The Minister of Justice, Simon Jolin-Barrette, announced last week that a public consultation would be held to determine whether it could simply be abolished.
This public consultation with the population of Quebec is already underway. “Its objective is to collect comments regarding the time change. This approach aims to evaluate the opportunity to maintain or abandon this practice. A questionnaire has been developed to allow interested people to participate in this collective reflection,” specifies the ministry in a press release.
The time change will also be an opportunity for holders of a bar license, restaurant license or any other place that has a drinking license to be able to sell or serve alcohol for an additional hour.
Various fire protection services are asking the public to take advantage of the time change to also check the batteries of smoke detectors.
