On Mar 27, 2006, at 9:56 PM, Florence McElligott wrote:
> AS I recall ( at age 67), it was for the people who
were working &
> also growing 'victory gardens' to supplement food
supply during WW 2.
> Many things were rationed. People even in urban
settings grew food for
> their own tables. Gave them daylight to work on it
after their own
> jobs at home.
>
> ---
> Flit McElligott
Below is some history of the on-again, off-again US use of
DST, from
http://w
ebexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
By the way, my parents had a Victory Garden during World War
2. At
least, until my father, who tended it, was sent to the
European Theater
of Operations to care for other things. My mother wasn't
exactly a
back-to-the-land woman, and got her fruits and veggies from
neighbors
and grocers, though she could knit, sew and cook with the
best of
them-----when she had to.
Re DST:
"The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. until
1918. 'An Act to
preserve daylight and provide standard time for the United
States' was
enacted on March 19, 1918. [See law] It both established
standard time
zones and set summer DST to begin on March 31, 1918.
Daylight Saving
Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. After
the War
ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people
rose earlier
and went to bed earlier than people do today) that it was
repealed in
1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's
veto. Daylight
Saving Time became a local option, and was continued in a
few states,
such as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in some cities,
such as New
York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt instituted
year-round
Daylight Saving Time, called “War Time,” from February 2,
1942 to
September 30, 1945. [See law] From 1945 to 1966, there was
no federal
law regarding Daylight Saving Time, so states and localities
were free
to choose whether or not to observe Daylight Saving Time and
could
choose when it began and ended. This understandably caused
confusion,
especially for the broadcasting industry, as well as for
railways,
airlines, and bus companies. Because of the different local
customs and
laws, radio and TV stations and the transportation companies
had to
publish new schedules every time a state or town began or
ended
Daylight Saving Time.
On January 4, 1974, President Nixon signed into law the
Emergency
Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973. Then,
beginning
on January 6, 1974, implementing the Daylight Saving Time
Energy Act,
clocks were set ahead for a 15-month period through April
27, 1975."
ETC.
Lois
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