THUNDER BAY — Eye bags and excessive yawning will be a common sight for those living in Thunder Bay this weekend.
This exhaustion comes with the city losing an hour in the morning with the start of daylight saving time on Sunday.
Beginning at 2 a.m., clocks were turned forward one hour across the country to accommodate sunrise and sunset coming later than the day before.
Before the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William formed Thunder Bay, the area was one of the forerunners of daylight saving time in Canada.
With more light in the evening and less light in the morning in the city, residents can expect days to begin to feel longer from now on.
However, researchers caution people that their circadian rhythms may take a while to adjust and sync up with the changes in time.
Not only does daylight savings time induce sleep deprivation in the spring, but it enforces later darkness during the summer, favouring delayed bedtime, social jetlag and more sleep loss, according to a position statement by the Canadian Sleep Society.
Daylight saving time will last until Nov. 2.
