"The current March to November system that the US follows began in 2007, but the concept of "saving daylight" is much older. Daylight saving time has its roots in train schedules, but it was put into practice in Europe and the United States to save fuel and power during World War I, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics."
"The US kept daylight saving time permanent during most of World War II. The idea was put in place to conserve fuel and keep things standard. As the war came to a close in 1945, Gallup asked respondents how we should tell time. Only 17% wanted to keep what was then called "war time" all year. During the energy crisis of the 1970s, we tried permanent daylight saving time again in the winter of 1973-1974."
Daylight saving time moves clocks forward one hour in spring and back one hour in fall, creating extended evening daylight for nearly eight months. The current U.S. March-to-November schedule began in 2007. The practice originated from train scheduling and was widely adopted during World War I to conserve fuel and power. The United States used year-round daylight saving during World War II and again briefly in 1973–1974 for energy reasons, but safety concerns and public opposition ended those experiments. States can opt out; Hawaii, most of Arizona and some U.S. territories do not observe the change.
Read at ABC7 Los Angeles
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