Daylight Saving Time has forced Texans to change their clocks twice-yearly for decades, but some Texans are ready for a permanent change.House...
Daylight saving time has forced Texans to change their clocks twice a year for decades.
But there was a time when Texans lived without the regular time changes, and one of our readers wanted to know why daylight saving time was introduced.“I had completely forgotten daylight saving time came to Texas, was discontinued and then came back,” she said. “I think I was 11 years old [and] in the fifth grade when it came back.”President Woodrow Wilson signed the daylight saving bill, known as the Standard Time Bill, into law on March 19, 1918.
The U.S. followed suit after a dozen European countries had"effectively demonstrated" the"practicality and efficiency" of their own daylight saving plans,The American law promised to help conserve resources like oil, gas and electric power used to light homes and businesses.
War time switched to standard time on Sept. 30, 1945, following the end of World War II, allowing everyone to have an extra hour of sleep.There was no federal daylight saving time law from 1945 to 1966, but some eastern regions of the U.S. continued daylight saving in the spring and summer during those years. President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Texan, signed the Uniform Time Act, making it a federal law in 1966.
Texas would be the third state, joining Arizona and Hawaii, if it does away with daylight saving time.What do you wonder about the culture, people and institutions of North Texas — and the rest of our great state? Help us investigate stories that matter to you.
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