You guys started it Tim!


First Used in Canada in 1908

In July, 1908, Port Arthur which today is known as Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada became the first location to use DST. Other locations in Canada were also early to introduce Daylight Saving bylaws.
On April 23, 1914, Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada implemented DST. The cities of Winnipeg and Brandon in Manitoba followed on April 24, 1916. According to the April 3, 1916, edition of the Manitoba Free Press, Daylight Saving Time in Regina “proved so popular that bylaw now brings it into effect automatically”.

 

Y'all easterners keep an eye on the skies. The storm line that blew through here last night was a wild one. We were in the basement taking cover for a good while around 1:00 AM.

 

Actually...


American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784. He wrote an essay, “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light” to the editor of The Journal of Paris, suggesting, somewhat jokingly, that Parisians could economize candle usage by getting people out of bed earlier in the morning, making use of the natural morning light instead.[2] New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895.[3] The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30, 1916. Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s.
The practice has both advocates and critics.[1] Putting clocks forward benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours,[4] but can cause problems for outdoor entertainment and other activities tied to sunlight, such as farming.[5][6] Though some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting—once a primary use of electricity[7]—today's heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST affects energy use is limited and contradictory.[8]

 

Morning Scottie

 

Guess I look at it as if you want to make use of the daylight when it is there, regardless of season, you set your alarm accordingly and leave everyone else out of it. Same goes for the evenings...prioritize and maximize your time and activities. But I am sure there are flaws with my way of thinking too

 

MMoRRRninn'' WWoooDDS!! Coooffee catasssstroppphe !! GGuesss wwhhereee ittt wweennnttt . damn what a mess!

 

Mornin' all.

Not a fan of DST but I think the idea was to make the daylight hours come during the time we are up, not to make it longer, or something like that.

Gusts up to 50 mph and high today 47, then colder for the rest of the week.
Last ice fishing tournament is Sunday, then summer can come.

Russ and his airplane sound like the song the Kingston trio sang, MTA train, he may never leave MN at this rate.

That's ok, we have a lot of bar/restaurants/tattoo parlors here and our summers are pretty nice, all 5 days of it.

Al

 

Morning Baker! I had to take my keyboard apart not long ago and clean it after I dumped shrimp and garlic sauce from the local Chinese place on it. Man what a pain in the *** that was!




Back when many folks were still in agriculture and had kids in school, it was a way to get them home and working before it got dark!

 

Morning AW

 

Fly fishing tip: Check your tippet once in a while to make sure you still have a fly on it. I've cast empty line before after barely smacking the water behind me. Then I throw the fly rod back in the truck and get my ultra-light out. No, I am not good with a fly rod! He's a little hard to see against my waders, but I caught this one last year.