Daylight Saving Time was first seriously proposed in London in 1907 by William Willett in the pamphlet, “Waste of Daylight”. At that time he suggested a 20 minute leap.
And then in WW I and again in WW II it was implemented to conserve energy. Germany was the first nation to adopt daylight time in WW I. With Britain parts of Europe, Canada and the United States quickly followed suit. In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, which requested all states to observe Daylight Saving Time, unless a state exempted By observing Daylight Saving Time we, in effect, create an extra hour of daylight in the evening. An hour in which less lighting is used and thus less electricity.
