With a sprawling complex of soccer fields behind his house, Creighton doesn’t have to go far to see the benefits of daylight time. Creighton said a consortium of vested interests — mainly drive-in theatre owners who worried an extra hour of daylight would hurt their bottom line — spent about $20,000 opposing daylight time in 1967. With 61 per cent of the vote, they demanded an extra hour of evening sunshine. In Edmonton, city-dwellers enjoyed the extra hour of sunlight so much they rallied to keep it after the war. A bit of grogginess one morning and an extra hour of sleep another.

Source: National Post March 09, 2017 21:00 UTC