With the start of fall, here's a brief explainer on what the practice is, how it started, and the effort by some states to make it permanent.
The United States began daylight saving time in 1918, copying efforts by Germany and Britain to save energy during WWI.On the morning of Nov. 6, daylight saving time ― not savings ― will once again come to an end.The sun will start rising earlier in the morning, but the tradeoff is that it won't set after 7 p.m. in Columbus again until March.
The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History and Education says:"This haphazard approach to managing our country's standard time left transportation industries, including railroads, trucking, and airlines, with complex and constantly shifting time schedules."
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