Subj : Daylight Savings Time
To   : Dr. What
From : Brian Murrey
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 08:24:33

on *24.02.22* at *13:01:22* You wrote in area *FSX_GEN*
to *Nightfox* about *"Re: Daylight Savings Time"*.

 -=>> Nightfox wrote to The Millionaire <=-

 Ni>> There's still the same amount of sun during the day.  I've heard a
 Ni>> saying where daylight saving time is like cutting a strip of blanket
 Ni>> from the top and sewing it to the bottom of the blanket and expecting
 Ni>> the blanket to be longer.

 DW> The whole purpose of Daylight "Saving" Time was to adjust our normal work
 DW> hours to correspond to when the sun was up.

 DW> While Franklin proposed it way back when, it really didn't get pushed
 DW> until companies like Ford created factories designed to take advantage of
 DW> natural light (if it's sunny in the building, we don't need to pay for
 DW> electric lights).

In the US we started observing DST in 1960, the ultimate power to change DST in the US lies with the US Transportation department, as it has since 1966.  Since 1966 29 US states have passed legislation to stay on DST year round, negating the need to change the clocks twice a year. I live in Indiana, we didn't observe DST here until April 2006. Being on the border of Eastern Time and Central Time this was quite a battle fought by then Governor Mitch McDaniels.  Until then we didn't observe.  So half the year the east coast was one hour ahead of us and the other half (when the east coast swithced back to standard time) we were on the same time clock.  One thing that makes it confusing now is out of 92 of the Indiana counties, 80 claim Eastern Time and 12 claim Central Time.  Here we call it Chicago time and New York time. 

DST in the US has had a long and confusing battle in the states, and many localities.

From the website at https://www.bts.gov/geospatial/daylight-savings-time

Time zones were introduced by the major railroad companies in 1883 to resolve confusion and avoid train crashes caused by different local times.3 As the United States entered World War I in 1918, the government delegated time zone supervision to the federal organization in charge of railroad regulation-the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC).1,5 The new concept of DST was also overseen by the ICC to assist in the war effort.5 Initially introduced by Germany during the war to conserve fuel and power by extending daylight hours, the United States soon followed suit.1

After World War I, DST was nationally abolished but allowed to continue on a state-by-state basis. As a result, confusion and collisions caused by different local times once again became a transportation issue. In 1966, the Department of Transportation was founded to serve as a "focal point of responsibility for transportation safety" and given regulatory power over time zones and DST. DST was implemented uniformly across the Nation, with dates for the twice-yearly transitions set by law. This still holds true today. With the exception of Arizona and Hawaii, every state must continue to observe DST between March and November, unless otherwise exempted by State law.   

Regards,
Brian Murrey
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