Saturday Night: Fall Back to Standard Time

Hello light in the morning and short days. The clocks go back Sunday morning as Standard Time arrives.

History of Daylight Savings Time, according to the New York Times: The policy began in Europe to conserve fuel during World War I. America adopted the idea from 1918 to 1919 and again in World War II, but left the option of time change up to state and local governments during peacetime.

The resulting hodgepodge of local times was cleared up by Congress with the Uniform Time Act of 1966, which declared that daylight saving time be observed from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October, though exemptions were allowed.

Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands don’t officially observe the time change each year.

In the Energy Policy Act of 2005, intended to strengthen the electricity grid and increase domestic fuel production, Congress inserted a section that moved the start of daylight saving time back to the second Sunday in March and the end to the first Sunday in November, the Times said.