In 1908, what was the first city in the world to adopt daylight saving time?

In 1908, the Canadian city of Thunder Bay—then the two cities of Fort William and Port Arthur—changed from the central time zone to the eastern time zone for the summer and fall after a citizen named John Hewitson argued that would afford an extra hour of daylight to enjoy the outdoors, says Michael deJong, curator-archivist at the Thunder Bay Museum.

The next year, though, Port Arthur stayed on eastern time, while Fort William changed back to central time in the fall, which, predictably, “led to all sorts of confusion,” deJong says.