Daylight saving time (DST)
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Indeed, the very notion of playing around with time was considered preposterous. One member complained that it was “out of the question to think of altering a system that had been in use for thousands of years”, while another rubbished the concept as unscientific and impractical.
Hudson had the last laugh when DST was adopted in Ontario, Canada in 1908. Countries around the world soon followed suit.