A switch to year-round daylight saving time really involves redrawing the nation's time zones. For Ohio, that would mean moving to Atlantic Time.
The United States began daylight saving time in 1918, copying efforts by Germany and Britain to save energy during WWI.On the morning of Sunday Nov. 6, daylight saving time ― not savings ― will once again come to an end.The sun will start rising earlier in the morning, but the tradeoff is that it won't set after 7 p.m. in Columbus again until March.
Prior to then, daylight saving time in the United States was not regulated by the federal government, leaving municipalities, cities and states the choice of whether or not to observe the practice, and if so, when it started and ended.says:"This haphazard approach to managing our country's standard time left transportation industries, including railroads, trucking, and airlines, with complex and constantly shifting time schedules.
By the mid-20th century, the emerging broadcast television industry also was finding it difficult to work within the patchwork time zones and standards, according to the Byrd Center. The start and end dates for daylight saving time in the United States has since shifted over the years.The practice was first suggested in an essay by Benjamin Franklin in 1784, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.In 1907, Willett published a pamphlet called "The Waste of Daylight" that campaigned for advancing clocks in spring and turning them back in fall, according to the. He also encouraged people to get out of bed earlier in the summer to make the most of daylight.
"Everyone appreciates the long light evenings," Willett wrote in the pamphlet."Everyone laments their shrinkage as autumn approaches, and nearly everyone has given utterance to a regret that the clear bright light of early morning during spring and summer months, is so seldom seen or used. Nevertheless standard time remains so fixed, that for nearly half the year the sun shines upon the land, for several hours each day while we are asleep.
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