Tonight at 2am I will turn my clocks back, I will still be away madly working on my CGSA proceedings paper.

You can read about the history of daylight savings time in this CBC article.

Daylight time was first enacted in Germany in 1915, quickly followed by Britain and much of Europe and Canada.

Because the sun shone for a time while most people were asleep, it was reasoned that light could be better used during the day. The solution was to push the clocks ahead one hour in springtime, forcing people to wake an hour earlier. They would therefore expend less energy trying to light their homes, for instance, if time were adjusted to suit their daily patterns.

When the days started getting shorter in the fall and people awoke to increasing darkness, the clocks were turned back an hour to get more light in the morning.

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