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This is a re-post of an article first published the last time Canada had a a clock change. But, since daylight saving time remains equally annoying four months later, we figured it deserved another look.

Once again, when the clocks hit 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 12, approximately 34 million Canadians needed to lose an hour of sleep in the service of the grand national experiment known as daylight saving time.

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First introduced to Canada 100 years ago as a way to save coal, the project is now an annual eight-month ritual tolerated purely due to the belief that it’s good for us. In March, we skip our clocks ahead one hour to inject more sunlight into the evenings. Then, in November, we switch them back to “standard time.”

But if government-mandated clock shifts annoy you, you’re not alone. A hefty body of scientific research is backing up the theory that this whole clock-switching thing might be a literal waste of time.