The change will be 2h: we advance the time the next night

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Saturday, 10 march, 2018 16:17

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The owners of bar, restaurant and club will have to cease to sell or serve alcohol from 2 a.m., Sunday morning, due to the time change.

Quebecers will have to advance their clock one hour in the night from Saturday to Sunday, in order to pass the daylight time Is.

This time change must be done precisely at 2 h as Well, the owners of bar, restaurant and club will have to cease to sell or serve alcohol an hour earlier than usual.

The Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux recalled by press release that this lost hour of operation can be retrieved in the fall, and the return to eastern standard time.

Significant Impacts on the health

The transition to daylight saving time has a significant impact on the health of the population, which ideally should prepare for this change in the week preceding.

“There’s a shortage not only an hour of sleep. When we will get up Sunday morning, he is going to do more black. The effect of the light that leads us to wake up is usually not there. It is sure that it gains in brightness on Sunday evening. (…) It is a change that is artificial for the body. This upsets the whole of our cycles such as appetite, and even mood,” said the neuropsychologist, Johanne Lévesque.

According to the doctor, the children, the elderly and the sick are the people most vulnerable to these changes.

“Those who have a fixed schedule and a regular such as young children who go to bed always at the same time, rise at the same time, eat at the same time, are particularly affected,” she pointed out.

“By the way, in the week following the time change, it was noticed that there are more people that are myocardial. We do not understand exactly why, but it is a fact”, she added.

Check your smoke alarms

The time change is also a reminder to change the batteries in their smoke alarms.

“Each year, three quarters of all fires occur in residences. The time when one is most vulnerable, that is when one sleeps at night. The only way to wake up, it’s the smoke alarm,” said Jean-Christophe Germain, vice-president of civil safety at the Association of technicians in fire prevention in Quebec.

Mr. Germain is also a reminder that smoke alarms have a life span of 10 years. It is therefore important to check the expiration date.