Who was the first person to suggest daylight savings time?
Correct answer: Benjamin Franklin
constantgamer0421
Montana Lady, not just to conserve energy, the making better use of daylight hours was for farmers and farm hands to work their fields.
mammy1027
Franklin was way ahead of his time!
lostiaz
It plays havoc with my body clock, glad that countries are now ceasing the practice. 🤗. Hopefully England will too.
Player #9952194
Player Elf Counsel, The clocks have nothing to do with the sun. How would readjusting the clocks affect the rotation of the Earth??
Andrew Charles
constantgamer0421, farmers work from sunrise to sunset ( and often longer!) and not by the clock...
DSDA
Iwonder, You should live in Saskatchewan, a province of Canada. While the rest of the country springs forward or falls back according to DST, we here in Saskatchewan stay the same time
Petrascar
It maybe made sense in their times, but what savings today all billboards shining through the night. ☠️
Iwonder
Australia voted it in and I personally hate daylight saving. body clock is all screwed up and kids are too hard to get to sleep on time.
Donna
I am from a state that supports two time zones...such a mess when the time changes twice a year-I believe this should be eliminated.
Trainwreck
It no longer serves any purpose but to upset or brains and body. Should just go away.
Player #109945361
I’m from Saskatchewan and we don’t do daylight savings time. The extra hour of sunlight would burn the crops.
Jennyzim
I hate daylight savings - and so does everyone I talk to. But we still have it here in Victoria 😫
player
Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, was the first city in the world to enact DST, on 1 July 1908... not Germany.
Player #83925953
I don't think I will ever get used to Daylight Savings Time. I call it Daylight Shaving Time because all you are doing is shaving off some time. At any rate, I don't bother to change my clocks. I just leave them one time ALL year long. That's just my silly way of rebelling against DST.
Betty
DSDA, here in AZ also.
STEVE69
constantgamer0421, clocks have to back at the end of the month. I cannot remember where I bought them from.
Player #14000764
Player #6852065, I fall to see much difference in the hour change to when it comes to the children having to get up early in the morning during the winter months. In areas where there is rural areas its dark, and late in the evening getting home from school. Not all parents can take and pick up their kids from school.
Player #6852065
I fail to see how taking an hour of daylight from the morning and adding it to the evening give you any extra daylight.
Player #9952194
mammy1027, He was joking when he suggested this crap.
Player #9952194
lostiaz, I haven’t switched to demented time in 30 years.
Player #8297262
it was first used in a small part of Canada in 1908. 8 years before Germany
Player Elf Counsel
Player #3632696, Thank heavens we don't have it here in Queensland. With our heat in summer we can't wait for the sun to go down.
DaveGundërsen
mammy1027, Just any hour ahead, for about 7 months per year.😉
Player #3632696
I wish we could stay on DST