TIME CHANGE – FALL BACK This coming Sunday, November 1st at 2:00am, it will be time to set your clocks back an hour.  You will also need to adjust timers for lights and signs accordingly.  This is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors.    If you are like me, you do not want to get up at 2:00am to do this so you may want to plan on doing so before going to bed. As a point of interest, daylight savings time has had a complicated and controversial history.  In 1895, George Vernon Hudson , Entomologist proposed the idea but there was little interest. After Hudson, William Willett from 1905 until his death tried unsuccessfully to get a bill passed. Germany led the way with implementing DST in  1916 during World War I.  When the United States entered the war in 1918, DST was established but with the end of the World War I, the pendulum swung back and DST was retired.  From this point on, only a few cities retained DST at all until President Franklin D. Roosevelt formally established year-round DST in the United States as an energy saving measure which was called "War Time," during World War II, from Feb. 9, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1945.   After the surrender of Japan in mid-August, 1945, it was relabeled "Peace Time".  The DST schedule was revised many times throughout the years.  The current schedule was introduced in 2007 and follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005. I hope you enjoyed reading about the history of Daylight Savings Time. Thank you Cyndi and Marilyn from Ustor, for this history note on the subject.     This coming Sunday, November 1st at 2:00am, it will be time to set your clocks back an hour.  You will also need to adjust timers for lights and signs accordingly.  This is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors.    If you are like me, you do not want to get up at 2:00am to do this so you may want to plan on doing so before going to bed.   As a point of interest, daylight savings time has had a complicated and controversial history.  In 1895, George Vernon Hudson , Entomologist proposed the idea but there was little interest. After Hudson, William Willett from 1905 until his death tried unsuccessfully to get a bill passed. Germany led the way with implementing DST in  1916 during World War I.  When the United States entered the war in 1918, DST was established but with the end of the World War I, the pendulum swung back and DST was retired.  From this point on, only a few cities retained DST at all until President Franklin D. Roosevelt formally established year-round DST in the United States as an energy saving measure which was called "War Time," during World War II, from Feb. 9, 1942, to Sept. 30, 1945.   After the surrender of Japan in mid-August, 1945, it was relabeled "Peace Time".  The DST schedule was revised many times throughout the years.  The current schedule was introduced in 2007 and follows the Energy Policy Act of 2005. I hope you enjoyed reading about the history of Daylight Savings Time. Thank you Cyndi and Marilyn for this history note on the subject.

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