How Newfoundland became the first country in the Americas to adopt daylight time

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Another day, another incredible sunrise at Brigus Lighthouse.

At the time, there was debate about whether the move would benefit rich townies or the lower working classes.With a time zone half an hour ahead of the rest of the continent, Newfoundlanders and some Labradorians will be the first North Americans to turn their clocks ahead tonight.

Willett’s self-published pamphlet 'The Waste of Daylight' explained how, by moving clocks ahead over the summer, people could spend more of their waking hours in daylight. Willett had originally proposed that the time shift should happen gradually, by 20 minutes on each of four consecutive Sundays in April, for a total time change of 80 minutes. Anderson persuaded him that a one-time adjustment of one hour would be easier to implement, and daylight time as we know it was born.

Several Canadian cities had by then experimented with daylight time, but implementing it at a municipal level created chaos for train schedules and inter-city trade.

 

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