In a couple weeks we will be setting our clocks BACK one hour ! , this practice has been going on for far too long in My opinion . So why do we do this?
well ,the idea of ‘Daylight Saving Time’ was 1st proposed in 1895 by New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson, it never caught on.
So .. In 1905, William Willett came up with the same idea in London. Why? He was an avid golfer who hated cutting short his Summer rounds on the links. Again, the idea failed to catch on.
As history tells it , The Germans and their allies were the first to implement Daylight Saving Time as a way of conserving coal during WW1. Britain and many other European countries followed the example.
The US adopted DST in 1918, but it wasn’t until 1966 that the whole country observed it. We Canadians were all on DST by the 1970s, except parts of Saskatchewan which refuse it. Now Ontario is taking s serious look at retaining Daylight Saving Time year round. A bill to move the province to permanent daylight time has passed second reading in the legislature, and if passed, Ontario would join the Yukon Territory in ending the twice-annual event (Saskatchewan has never participated in the clock change, and remains on Central Standard Time). studies show that increasing evening daylight hours would encourage people to get out and do some shopping at a time when small businesses are suffering, and allow kids to get more daylight at the end of the day , less car accidents , more productiveness in the workplace . what do you think ? .. is it time to STOP toying with the Time ?
Hartley Reede.
