It wasn’t until The Standard Time Act of 1918 that changing the clocks twice a year became the law of the land. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 provided standardization in the dates of the ...

when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Standard Time Act into law. The end of daylight saving time means there will be more light in the morning and it will get dark earlier in the evening.

March 15, 1918, The Standard Time Act was passed by Congress, creating daylight saving time in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act into law on March 19, 1918, and it went ...

Daylight saving time was first introduced in the U.S. in 1918 when the Standard Time Act became law to save on fuel costs, but it was quickly reversed at the national level after World War I ended ...

When it ended, states were able to establish their own standard time until 1966 when Congress finally passed the Uniform Time Act, standardizing national time. Amid an energy crisis in 1973 ...