Here's a look at when daylight saving time starts and ends during the year, so you know when to change your clock and not miss an important engagement. You'll also learn about the history of daylight saving time, why we have it now and some myths and interesting facts about the time ...
Why do we have daylight saving time? And why are days longer in summer and shorter in winter? Daylight saving time is really just a trick. At least, so says Michael Downing, author of Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time. He's our guest in this episode, and he ...
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.”
Do we really have to do it? Will it ever stop? And here are the answers. Why do we do Daylight Saving Time? What does it mean? The popular idea that Benjamin Franklin invented Daylight Saving Time is half-true. He wrote a humorous letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris in...
While the clocks on our smartphones alter themselves, we have to go around the house and manually update those clocks that need doing. Daylight Saving Day FAQs What time do we turn the clocks back? On Daylight Savings Day, we turn our clocks back an hour at 2am., so the clock will...
10 reasons why daylight savings is the worstZoë Miller
It doesn’t really help anyone, they say, but it does throw off sleep schedules around the country. As a result, even more states and cities are considering bills to do away with DST. ☀️ Science is on our side. We’ll help you make sense of it all. What these articles and ...
twilight arrives before 5 p.m. is always a shock to the system. I can’t help but feel cheated. I know we get that hour of daylight back in the mornings—that we are notreallysaving or losing any hours of daylight—but somehow, that morning hour doesn’t feel like adequ...
(way too common around here for about 4-5 months of the year…. but then we don’t have any climbs to really generate peak body heat) but I guess I’m a little confused by the emphasis on multi-layered shell material when one layer oughta do it and by what seems to be almost an...
Both the time zone to use, and the definition of summer time, are creations of man and subject to frequent changes. Recently, for example, the definition of daylight savings time in the USA was changed. Most provinces of Canada (after grumbling) followed the US lead. ...