SPRING AHEAD

Don't forget to shove your clocks ahead 1 Hour when going to bed tonight if you live where Day Light Savings Time is a Fact of Life

Seems to me that I heard that daylight savings time was thought up by some wealthy city folks that wanted to get an extra hour of golfing in in the evening after they got off work. Well, unless snow golf is a new trend, it's a little early for golfing. Darrel

me thinks it was ol Ben Franklin what thought this chit up,,,,

Old Indian sayin;
Only white man cut off end of blanket,
sew it onto other end,
and then 'sell' it as longer blanket.

My 96: year old mom said this was started during ww1 or ww2. My memory is crap? It was save electricty, kerosene, or whatever fuel you were using to light your home/business. Had more for military use.

During World War I, in an effort to conserve fuel, Germany began observing DST on May 1, 1916. The rest of Europe soon followed. The plan was not adopted in the United States until the Standard Time Act of March 19, 1918, which confirmed the existing standard time zone system and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918 (reverting October 27).^[4] The idea was unpopular and Congress abolished DST after the war, overriding President Woodrow Wilson's veto.^[5] DST became a local option and was observed in some states until World War II, when President Franklin Roosevelt instituted year-round DST, called "War Time", on February 9, 1942.^[6] It lasted until the last Sunday (the 30th) in September 1945. After 1945 many states and cities east of the Mississippi River (and mostly north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers) adopted summer DST.^[7]

From 1945 to 1966 there was no federal law on daylight saving time, so localities could choose when it began and ended or drop it entirely. As of 1954, only California and Nevada had statewide DST west of the Mississippi, and only a few cities between Nevada and St. Louis. In the 1964 Official Railway Guide, 21 of the 48 contiguous states had no DST anywhere.

1966–1972: Federal standard established[edit]

By 1962, the transportation industry found the lack of consistency confusing enough to push for federal regulation. The result was the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-387). Beginning in 1967, the act mandated standard time within the established time zones and provided for advanced time: clocks would be advanced one hour beginning at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in April and turned back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October. States were allowed to exempt themselves from DST as long as the entire state did so. If a state chose to observe DST, the time changes were required to begin and end on the established dates.

Edited by steve(ill) - 11 Mar 2019 at 10:31pm

That's why they missed picking you up on that restraining order you violated.  Lucky you.

Edited by chaskaduo - 12 Mar 2019 at 12:36pm