Everyone has noticed that daylight doesn't roll in until almost 7:30 a.m.This will end Saturday, Nov. 3, at 2 a.m. when Daylight Savings time ends and we set our clocks back one hour. Next year, Daylight Savings will begin again on Sunday, March 9, 2025.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) was established in 1918 and the five time zones in place today A long hstory of DST is as follows.
March 15, 1918, Congress passes the Standard Time Act, which creates DST.
March 19, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson signs the Standard Time Act into law March 31, 1918, DST goes into effect for the first time in the U.S.
Calder Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to fix the time zone boundaries within the United States and to change them as necessary. The act also set a summer DST to begin on the last Sunday of March and conclude on the last Sunday in October.
The schedule for DST is it begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October DST was originally implemented to help save energy during World War I. The extra hour of daylight meant people spent less time inside with the lights on, and spent less on electricity and fuel. The idea of DST originated in Imperial Germany.
Following many of the other belligerent countries, the United States adopted daylight saving time on March 31, 1918, as a means to conserve electricity during wartime Daylight saving procedures most people are now familiar with were established in 1966 and most recently changed in 2005. The current dates for when the US springs forward (the second Sunday of March) into daylight saving time or falls back (the first Sunday of November) to standard time are enshrined in federal law and were most recently changed in the Energy Policy Act of 2005