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Did you know?

Did you know?

Early this morning, many of us in the United States set our clocks back one hour due to Daylight Saving Time (DST). Did you know:

  • That DST was introduced by an Englishman named William Willett in the early 1900’s?
  • In 1918, the United States Congress put the entire country on DST for the remainder of World War I (the law was later repealed)? From 1942-1945, the U.S. was again on DST due to war.
  • It wasn’t until the Uniform Time Act of 1966 that the U.S standardized the use of Daylight Saving Time?
  • For the years 1945-1966, each state and locality established whether or not they would observe DST?
  • In 2008, the United States will observe DST from March 9th – November 2nd?

To learn more about DST in the United States than you could ever want to know, click here or here.

[tags]DST, Time, DYK [/tags]

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