Daylight savings time more for economics

This weekend was the official “spring forward” for this year, and I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am guaranteed to be exhausted for at least the next few days while I try to convince my brain that it is actually not an hour later than it’s supposed to be, and I did not actually lose an hour of sleep. As the Wyoming government once again decides the fate of the use of daylight savings time in the state, I was curious as to how this whole thing even got started.

On July 1, 1908, in Port Arthur Ontario, the two hundred plus citizens there decided to spring their clocks forward by one ho...