Newfie Standard Time

This is your friendly reminder that daylight saving time ends this weekend.

Daylight saving time began on the second Sunday of March and will conclude the first Sunday of November which falls on the 3rd. 

You should turn your clocks BACK 1 hour at 2 a.m.

In other terms, you fall back. This is how I remember it. 

The story goes that you gain an hour of sleep, gain sunlight in the wee hours of the morning and lose sunlight in the evening. 

What does this mean for owners of Newfies?

Nothing. It means nothing. 

We don’t gain anything because we live on Newfie standard time. 

Our Newfies will wake us up at the same time with a poke and then a bark which means we will never gain that hour of sleep

The hard stare and stalking will start 2 hours before dinner time instead of the normal 1 hour so we will actually lose an hour of sanity. 

Newfies run on their own time, we all know that, so this falling back crap and gaining an hour of sleep is useless to us. 

When Was Daylight Standard Time First Used?

Get this: According to timeanddate.com, daylight saving time was first used in 1908 by a few Canadians in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The land of the Newfoundlands is where this crazy time standard was first used!

Other locations in Canada soon followed suit but Germany popularized DST after it first set the clocks forward on April 30, 1916, to save fuel during World War I.

Daylight saving time became a national standard in 1966 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Uniform Time Act, which was established as a way to continue to conserve energy.

The thinking was if it’s light out longer, that’s less time you’ll need to use the lights in your house.

Daylight Saving Time is now used in over 70 countries worldwide and affects over one billion people every year and thousand of Newfoundland owners. The beginning and end dates vary from one country to another. 

Who Invented DST?

New Zealand scientist George Vernon Hudson obviously was not Newfoundland owner when he presented a paper in 1895 to the Wellington Philosophical Society, proposing a 2-hour shift forward in October and a 2-hour shift back in March. 

British builder William Willett suggested also was obviously not an owner of a dogs when, 1905, he suggested setting the clocks ahead 20 minutes on each of the four Sundays in April, and switching them back by the same amount on each of the four Sundays in September, a total of eight time switches per year.

What???? That’s just insane!

The first Daylight Saving Bill was drafted in 1909, presented to Parliament several times and examined by a select committee. However, the idea was opposed by many, especially farmers, so the bill was never made into a law.

Who knew?!

Well, now we do and we know who to blame for our Newfies judging us more than they already do.