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Torn Rose · 2005-04-03, 09:21 AM

I posted this yesterday in the "morning thread" but I did it pretty late in the afternoon and I thought this was interesting so I wanted to post it where more people would have a chance to read it

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in684740.shtml

Congress passed the first DST law in 1918 and repealed it the next year. Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed year-round DST for three years during the Second World War. In 1966, Congress approved a uniform DST standard for the whole country. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon had the nation go on DST for 15 consecutive months in order to conserve energy. The last president to modify DST was Ronald Reagan, who advanced DST's start date to the first Sunday in April.

2005-04-03, 09:21 AM	#5
Torn Rose "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." ~ Mark Twain Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 4,806	I posted this yesterday in the "morning thread" but I did it pretty late in the afternoon and I thought this was interesting so I wanted to post it where more people would have a chance to read it http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in684740.shtml Congress passed the first DST law in 1918 and repealed it the next year. Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed year-round DST for three years during the Second World War. In 1966, Congress approved a uniform DST standard for the whole country. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon had the nation go on DST for 15 consecutive months in order to conserve energy. The last president to modify DST was Ronald Reagan, who advanced DST's start date to the first Sunday in April.