TIL Daylight Saving Time (DST) was first used in 1908 in Port Arthur, Ontario (today's Thunder Bay). While Germany and Austria were the first countries to use DST in 1916, a few hundred Canadians beat the German Empire by eight years.
timeanddate.comSubmitted by dremonearm t3_120pq6y in todayilearned
breckenridgeback t1_iugbbcu wrote
Reply to ELI5: if Earth rotates so fast, why does it always look still from outer space? by ShesOver9k
other motion. For comparison's sake, [a finger at arm's length covers about 1 degree](https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/measuring-the-sky-by-hand.html), so an object directly below you would take about 5 seconds to cross the width