One study published in the journal Epidemiology found that diagnoses of depression tend to rise during the transition period from daylight time to standard time. Based on data from the Danish Psychiatric Central Register from to , researchers identified an eight per cent increase in cases at psychiatric hospitals than in the days preceding the time change. The daylight time transition has also been found to possibly increase the risk of strokes, the American Academy of Neurology reports.
According to an analysis of 10 years of Toronto pedestrian accident data by Global News, nine more pedestrians are hurt or killed in Toronto in the week after the fall time change. It was first introduced in Canada as a way to cut costs on coal and save money on energy. World Canada Local. Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National. Need some help? Quebec east.
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Country - London Add this station to My Stations. The Eagle Easy Energy Evolution FLOW FM These fall and spring clock changes continue a long tradition started by Benjamin Franklin to conserve energy.
Here's a look at when daylight saving time starts and ends during the year, its history, why we have it now and some myths and interesting facts about the time change. Historically, daylight saving time DST has begun in the summer months and ended right before winter, though the dates have changed over time as the U.
Starting in , DST begins in the U. Daylight saving time then ends on the first Sunday in November , when clocks are moved back an hour at 2 a. Daylight saving time in the U. Benjamin Franklin takes the honor or the blame, depending on your view of the time changes for coming up with the idea to reset clocks in the summer months as a way to conserve energy, according to David Prerau, author of " Seize the Daylight : The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time" Thunder's Mouth Press, By moving clocks forward, people could take advantage of the extra evening daylight rather than wasting energy on lighting.
At the time, Franklin was ambassador to Paris and so wrote a witty letter to the Journal of Paris in , rejoicing over his "discovery" that the sun provides light as soon as it rises. Even so, DST didn't officially begin until more than a century later. The rest of Europe came onboard shortly thereafter. And in , the United States adopted daylight saving time.
Though President Woodrow Wilson wanted to keep daylight saving time after WWI ended, the country was mostly rural at the time and farmers objected, partly because it would mean they lost an hour of morning light. It's a myth that DST was instituted to help farmers.
And so daylight saving time was abolished until the next war brought it back into vogue. Related: 5 crazy chapters in the history of daylight saving time. After the war, a free-for-all system in which U. That federal law meant that any state observing DST — and they didn't have to jump on the DST bandwagon — had to follow a uniform protocol throughout the state in which daylight saving time would begin on the first Sunday of April and end on the last Sunday of October.
Then, in , the Energy Policy Act of went into effect, expanding the length of daylight saving time to the present timing.
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