In the early s, observance of Daylight Saving Time was quite inconsistent, with a hodgepodge of time observances, and no agreement about when to change clocks. The Interstate Commerce Commission, the nation's timekeeper, was immobilized, and the matter remained deadlocked.
Many business interests were supportive of standardization, although it became a bitter fight between the indoor and outdoor theater industries. The farmers, however, were opposed to such uniformity. State and local governments were a mixed bag, depending on local conditions. Efforts at standardization were encouraged by a transportation industry organization, the Committee for Time Uniformity.
They surveyed the entire nation, through questioning telephone operators as to local time observances, and found the situation was quite confusing. Next, the Committee's goal was a strong supportive story on the front page of the New York Times. Having rallied the general public's support, the Time Uniformity Committee's goal was accomplished, but only after discovering and disclosing that on the mile stretch of highway Route 2 between Moundsville, W.
By , some million Americans were observing Daylight Saving Time based on their local laws and customs. Benjamin Franklin gets some credit for the idea of daylight saving time, though his recommendation was really a joke. In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris , Franklin jokingly recommended the people get out of bed earlier in the morning to minimize the use of candles and lamp oil. In , George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand, came up with the modern concept of daylight saving time.
He proposed a two-hour time shift so he'd have more after-work hours of sunshine to go bug hunting in the summer. Hudson suggested moving clocks ahead two hours in October and then a two-hour shift back in March. In , William Willett, a British builder, suggested moving clocks ahead 20 minutes every Sunday in April and then setting them back every Sunday in September. That's eight time changes every year! In , locations within the German Empire set clocks ahead one hour in an effort to use less power for lighting and to save fuel for the war effort.
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