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If there is a good argument in favour of DST, it might be Franklin’s suggestion to fire a canon each morning at sunrise

Fire the Canons! It’s Daylight Savings Time!



In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." In his advocacy for people to wake up and leverage the day, Franklin joked there should be a tax on window shutters, candles should be rationed, and canons should be fired at sunrise!

But it was the small town of Port Arthur in northern Ontario that first changed the clocks by enactment on July 1, 1908.

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