How much sleep have I lost worrying about daylight saving
time?
Eagle Archive
By Kevin E. Dayhoff November 10, 2012
Of course, I lost that hour in the days since, lying awake
thinking about the history of daylight savings time. The March 7, 1947, edition
of a local Westminster paper carried an article which gives us some insight
into almost a century of controversy over daylight saving time.
Ben Franklin is credited with advocating the value of
"daylight saving," in 1784, in a satirical, anonymous letter to the
editor of the Journal of Paris. In it, he proposed, among many humorous
remedies to the overuse of candles, a tax on shutters, to be enforced by
stepped-up police vigilance and the rationing of candles.
It was not until the Standard Time Act was enacted March 19,
1918, that daylight saving time was established in the United States. It was so
controversial that it was promptly repealed in 1919.
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, it was re-established
nationally early in World War II, and was continuously observed from February
1942 to September 1945. After the war, its use was determined locally among
states, counties and communities…
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