MVAP PSA: Daylight Savings Time Starts Tonight

Just a friendly reminder that Daylight Savings Time starts at 0200 your time tonight.

Daylight savings started in 1918 as a way to conserve energy during WWI. It proved exceedingly unpopular and was rescinded after the war. Congress overrode a Wilson veto to get rid of it because of the popular dislike.

It wasn’t readopted nationally until the Uniform Time act of 1966. Beginning in 1967, the act mandated standard time within the established time zones and provided for advanced time: Clocks would be advanced one hour beginning at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in April and turned back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday in October.

There is a move afoot to end Daylight Savings Time. With any luck, one of the bills ending DST will pass and be sent to the President for his signature.