What are your thoughts on changing the clocks?

By MPP Haldimand Press

To The Haldimand Press

There is a misconception Daylight Savings Time was originally implemented to give farmers more time to harvest their crops. As a farmer, work is often dusk to dawn and beyond – it doesn’t matter what the clock says. Daylight Savings Time was first implemented in the First World War as a way to conserve resources by delaying the need for lights early in the evening during the summer.

Fast-forward more than 100 years and in 2005, legislation was passed in the United States to extend Daylight Savings Time to eight months of the year. Canada followed suit.

Ottawa-West Nepean MPP Jeremy Roberts introduced a Private Member’s Bill which proposes the bi-annual time change ends and the province moves to permanent Daylight Savings Time.

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