Daylight saving time = Canadians, mad as damp owls

Canadian passenger trains bound for the U.S. were once forced to stop for an hour at the border to keep to railway timetables; America had switched to daylight saving and Canada had not.

If Canada lasts for 1,000 years they will still say, "Boy, those people had their troubles with daylight saving time." We were the last industrialized country on earth to introduce the measure, in 1918, and have resented it bitterly ever since. As The Hamilton Spectator once moaned, "W...

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