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- In 1918, the United States Congress put the entire country on DST for the remainder of World War I (the law was later repealed)?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]