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This is a re-post of an article published in 2016. We will continue to post it every clock change until Canadians are finally liberated from this government-imposed temporal scourge.

Daylight saving time ends on Sunday, Nov. 4, and clocks will fall back one hour at 2 a.m. Once again, approximately 34 million Canadians will gain an hour of sleep only to lose it again in the spring, all in the service of the grand national experiment.

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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.