| Twice a year, every year all across North America | | | | province of Saskatchewan does not change its |
| thousands of people arrive to appointments, work | | | | clocks each year. |
| and church an hour early or an hour late according to | | | | Wait a minute, you might say, if Saskatchewan does |
| whether their clocks fall back or spring forward. The | | | | not change its clocks, then it does not observe |
| phenomenon, which brings out such tardiness over an | | | | daylight saving time, right? Well, not quite. The fact |
| entire continent is of course daylight saving time | | | | is, Saskatchewan actually observes Daylight Saving |
| (note that there is no S on the end of saving!). The | | | | Time all year long, instead of returning to standard |
| idea of daylight saving time is of course an artificial | | | | time in the fall. |
| one, which was thought to be a good idea for | | | | In fact, Daylight Saving Time is the default position |
| commercial enterprises, although it did not work well | | | | of all the communities and municipalities in the |
| for some occupations. | | | | province, due to the mandates during the World |
| One occupation that was adversely affected by the | | | | Wars, which made it a necessary step in order to |
| invention of daylight saving time was farming and | | | | conserve fuel and energy. The difference with |
| ranching. For that reason, some locations where | | | | Saskatchewan was that it chose not to return to |
| these activities were mainstays of the economy | | | | standard time after the wars ended. |
| refused to embrace the change, and their time | | | | To further complicate matters, some communities in |
| remain mercifully static all year long. One notable | | | | Saskatchewan have different times than others. This |
| place is the town of Elkhart, Indiana, which not only | | | | is due to the fact that the province covers two |
| differs from the rest of the United States in this | | | | different time zones and thus embraces a |
| regard but also from its state as well. So, do we | | | | combination of Mountain Time and Daylight Saving |
| have any of these exceptions in Canada? | | | | Time. The city of Lloydminster is the exception to |
| The answer is no. As you might expect from the | | | | the rest of the province, and does switch its clocks |
| fact that the province’s economy has | | | | year to year. |
| traditionally centred around agriculture, the prairie | | | | |