It was in 1784 that Benjamin Franklin first suggested the concept of time change
For many Canadians, March 10 signifies the day when they reluctantly set their clocks forward and bid farewell to a precious hour of sleep.
Author David Prerau, also known as the world’s leading expert on DT, said that this long-standing tradition traced its roots back to the late 18th century.In 1784, while serving as the U.S. ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin was the first one to come up with the idea of time change. Though Willet did not live long enough to see his creation applied, the German government, seeking ways to conserve scarce resources like fuel, implemented his system in 1915 amid the First World War.
In 2019, the B.C.’s Horgan government pledged to eliminate this time change following a survey that revealed 93 per cent of respondents opposed it. Additional research found that following the transition from summer time to standard time in the fall was associated with an increase in depression cases of 11 per cent in hospital contacts. However, the same paper found that these seasonal symptoms would disappear over the following months.
“During the mid-summer in B.C., the sun would at around 4:30 a.m. ,” said Prerau. “But if you move the sunrise back an hour, nobody even notice it and you’re getting an extra hour of daylight in the evening.” “Everybody would be getting up and going to work in the dark… it would also be colder before the sun rises.”
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