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DST changes tonight

Most countries these days move their clocks forward an hour in the spring and back every autumn to make the most of natural daylight. The practice was first suggested in 1895 by British-born New Zealand scientist George Vernon Hudson in a paper submitted to the Wellington Philosophical Society. Hudson's suggestion was lambasted by his peers.

Scientists 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 criticized the concept as unscientific and impractical.
Hudson had the last laugh of course when DST was adopted in Ontario, Canada in 1908, with countries around the world soon following suit.