Daylight Savings Time in the United States began on Sunday, March 13
and will end on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016. Daylight savings time was used in other
countries before “fast time,” as it was called, went into effect during World
War I. Making better use of daylight and conserving energy was considered
patriotic. It was discontinued, except in Pittsburg, Boston and New York City,
until President Franklin D. Roosevelt reinstituted “War Time,” which was in
effect from Feb. 9, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1945. There were no uniform rules for
daylight standard time in the United States from 1942 until 1966, when Congress
established a Uniform Time Act with DST beginning the last Sunday of April and
ending the last Sunday of October. Congress also extended DST to 10 months
during the oil embargo in 1974 and 1975, which saved the energy equivalent of
10,000 barrels of oil each day, but people complained about it and the schedule
has been revised a number of times. The current schedule—the second Sunday in
March to the first Sunday in November—was introduced in 2007. For more
information on Daylight Savings Time, see https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/history.html.
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