--- title: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Tweets Wrong Daylight Saving Time Clocks Info description: Gaffe-prone mayor advised his Twitter followers to turn their clocks back, instead of forward canonical: https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-09T18:33:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:08.499Z og:title: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Tweets Wrong Daylight Saving Time Clocks Info og:description: Gaffe-prone mayor advised his Twitter followers to turn their clocks back, instead of forward og:url: https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1650087f4794d523/6986826135ba6f2f13c009ae/rob-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Press Conference og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Tweets Wrong Daylight Saving Time Clocks Info twitter:description: Gaffe-prone mayor advised his Twitter followers to turn their clocks back, instead of forward twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1650087f4794d523/6986826135ba6f2f13c009ae/rob-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rob Ford Apparently Doesn't Understand How Daylight Saving Time Works ## Video: The Most Outrageous Rob Ford Moments [Watch (HLS stream): The Most Outrageous Rob Ford Moments](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Op3scdcP.m3u8) (4:12)  _Published 2013-11-14. The Best Of Rob Ford_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 9, 2014 6:33 PM UTC  TORONTO, ON - JANUARY 14 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford held a press conference at city hall regarding the ice storm clean up on January 14, 2015. TORONTO, ON - JANUARY 14 - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford held a press conference at city hall regarding the ice storm clean up on January 14, 2015.Carlos Osorio—Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 9, 2014 6:33 PM UTC And in today’s edition of fun Rob Ford news: the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone Toronto mayor incorrectly advised his 133,000 Twitter followers to turn their clocks back for Daylight Saving Time, instead of forward. The now-deleted tweet read, “Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.” It was up for about 30 minutes, which was plenty of time for snarky backlash and [screenshots](http://mashable.com/2014/03/09/rob-ford-messes-up-daylight-saving-time/) of the error. Soon, a [new tweet ](https://twitter.com/TOMayorFord/status/442497860890677248)went up with the correct information: > [](https://twitter.com/TOMayorFord/status/442497860890677248) Seriously, why has no one taught Rob Ford that old saying, “spring forward, fall back?” To be fair, Daylight Saving Time _is_ [pretty baffling](http://time.com/15938/daylight-saving-time-explainer/). Plus, given Ford’s track record (see: lying about smoking crack and then later [admitting it](http://world.time.com/2013/11/05/toronto-mayor-admits-smoking-crack/)), this slip-up seems pretty tame. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/"},"headline":"Rob Ford Apparently Doesn't Understand How Daylight Saving Time Works","datePublished":"2014-03-09T18:33:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:08.499Z","description":"The embattled crack-smoking mayor of Toronto gave his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers the wrong clock-setting advice ahead of this weekend's Daylight Savings Time switchover","url":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Internet","twitter","Canada","Rob Ford","Toronto","daylight saving time","tweet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1650087f4794d523/6986826135ba6f2f13c009ae/rob-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1650087f4794d523/6986826135ba6f2f13c009ae/rob-ford.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Press Conference","caption":"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Press Conference","creditText":"Carlos Osorio—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/","name":"Rob Ford Apparently Doesn't Understand How Daylight Saving Time Works"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Most Outrageous Rob Ford Moments","description":"The Best Of Rob Ford","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Op3scdcP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2013-11-14T21:23:16.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Op3scdcP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/","duration":"PT4M12S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/17428/rob-ford-daylight-saving-time-tweet/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```