Spring Forward – Change your clock

Here are some other stories about DST:

• British soldiers synchronized their watches on the front line during World War I, and some of the first people to adopt DST did so in World War I.
• In 1918, the United States implemented DST with the Standard Time Act as a wartime measure for seven months during World War I.
• In 1916, the Germans adopted DST to help save energy.
• During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt re-established the idea of DST. Year-round DST, or “War Time”, was implemented again during World War II.
• In 1987, President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1986 into law, which amended the starting date of DST to the first Sunday in April.