Daylight Savings Time:

History

Benjamin Franklin first mentioned Daylight Savings Time in passing in 1784 as a joke. William Willett first seriously proposed Daylight Savings Time in 1907 but the British Government wouldn't adopt it. Speaking of which, North Americans refer to it as Daylight Savings Time or DST, while Europeans know it as Summer Time.

The German Government enacted Daylight Savings Time in 1916 during the First World War. Followed later by the United Kingdom, also in 1916, and Newfoundland, Canada in 1917. The United States Congress passed Daylight Savings in 1918, but the American law was repealed a mere seven months later in 1919 when the U.S. Congress overrode President Woodrow Wilson's veto of the repeal.

Traditionally

Traditionally Daylight Savings Time (DST) or Summer Time ran from 2 am on either the last Sunday of March or the first Sunday of April to 2 am on the last Sunday of October. Effective 2007, the United States Government changed the official duration of Daylight Savings Time as an experiment. Regardless of whether this experiment will work or not, the rest of the world was forced to change as well to keep up.

Currently

Now Daylight Savings Time officially begins at 2 am on the second Sunday of March and ends at 2 am on the first Sunday of November. For those of you with vcr's etcetera set to change time automatically, you will need to turn this feature off as they will no longer correctly change time on the right dates.

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