IT'S FALL BACK TIME...DON'T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS TONIGHT BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP!

DON'T FORGET TO
TURN BACK YOUR CLOCKS
SUNDAY 3rd NOVEMBER 2019
AT 2:00 a.m.



That's right! It's FALL BACK time - aka: STANDARD TIME (ST). And you wondered why it was so dark out all the time these days!!! 

 Well unless you are over 170-years old, then Standard Time has been a part of your life since they day you were born. So, it's an unquestioned routine. But did you ever wonder where this came from in the first place?

 Accoring to Wikipedia, Standard Time first saw the light of day in Great Britain in 1847 and was also known as RAILWAY TIME since it was primarily brought into existence to facilitate scheduling for trains and steamships during the early Industrial Revolution.

 A standardized time system was first used by British railways on December 1, 1847, when they switched from local mean time, which varied from place to place, to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). It was also given the name railway time reflecting the important role the railway companies played in bringing it about. The vast majority of Great Britain's public clocks were standardized to GMT by 1855

 Shortly thereafter on Sunday 18th November 1883 it came into existence in most of Canada & United States as a result of the efforts of the General Time Convention (renamed the American Railway Association in 1891):

 The members agreed that on Sunday, November 18, 1883, all United States and Canadian railroads would readjust their clocks and watches to reflect the new five-zone system on a telegraph signal from the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh at exactly noon on the 90th meridian.

 And that is how we came to have Standard Time!!!

 So, if that's Standard Time, then what the heck is SPING FORWARD time or - aka: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME (DST)? 

 Well, you will just have to wait until March 2020 to find out the answers to that question...at least from me. So, no cheating and see you back here in just under four (4) months or so to continue our exploration of the exciting and controversial world of time!
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
  • References to the Wikipedia article quoted above can be found here!
  • The image at the top of the page is referenced from NEWSTALK 610 CKBT here!
  • The image at the bottom of the page is referenced from USA TODAY here!