With the first signs of winter showing up, it is also time to adjust our physical and biological clocks back to Standard Time.

This Sunday we turn our clocks back one hour, however, this change can be hardest on infants and young children.

Parents for the past couple days and weeks have approached Paediatric Sleep Consultant Joleen Dilk Salyn, who explains some of the fears parents are having with the change.

"They're worried their children will wake up an hour early. It’s age appropriate that children are waking six to seven a.m., a lot of parents are coming to me because their kids are waking at even earlier than that."

With the time change coming parents could be looking at a four a.m. wake up for their children.

Salyn says though the Spring change is harder for kids because of the loss of an hour, gaining an hour still disrupts their internal clocks.

Infants and young children can often be heavily affected by the time change

There’s an easy solution to the problem says Salyn, by being aware of the kids day time routines.

Making sure they have one to two-hour naps says Salyn, with time and a regular routine, you can get your children onto the new schedule.

With the struggle with time change on families, why was Daylight Savings Time created? To understand you first need to take a look at the history of the concept.

Garden Valley Collegiate History teacher Mark Wilson says to his understand what forced Canada into DST was the railways.

"With lots of rail-lines running down into the U.S. The problem was the U.S. had adopted DST and if we didn't our trains would have to sit for an hour. That’s going to solve things in a hurry."

Wilson explains with how heavily tied our economy is to the U.S. when they change we change.

The original concept of DST was to increase production while reducing coal usage during WW1.

There are many exceptions to DST as it is a Provincial matter, not Federal.  With so many exceptions there is a huge debate whether DST is actually beneficial.

There are some people who claim that disrupting ones biological clock can cause health issues says, Wilson. With the modern world where you can make things as bright or as warm as you need, that DST is actually causing more energy to be used.