"WAR TIME" or better known as Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins tonight as we "Spring Forward" one hour!! The idea for DST first began as early as the 1700's as a way to maximize daylight working hours and later into the early 1900's as a way to save electricity and coal. 
It was the Germans during #WWI who first practiced DST on April 30, 1916 as a way to conserve electricity for the war effort. The British who had been considering it for years followed a few weeks later.
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#Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #DaylightSavingsTime #DST #MilitaryHistory
When America entered the war they also adjusted to DST in March of 1918 but it was so despised that it was repealed by President Wilson in 1919.
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@USArmy @TRADOC @TradocCG @SecArmy @ArmyChiefStaff @FORSCOM
#WWII necessitated the need again for DST and it was put into effect in early 1942 in the United States but once again repealed three weeks after the war was over. Iowa alone had 23 different time periods. A Time Magazine article in 1963 called this situation a "chaos of clocks."
In 1966 the U.S. Congress created the Uniform Time Act which established the system we use today. Not all states follow this DST, Hawaii and Arizona remain on standard year-long time as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa and some communities within the U.S. such as the Amish.
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