Daylight Savings Time was instituted during World War I to increase war time production when factories were lighted by sunlight through large windows. We do not need it any longer.
We need daylight savings time in the Pacific Northwest. Otherwise, we would be in the dark most hours of the year.
It was first introduced in Germany in 1916 during World War I as an energy saving measure, according to CU Boulder sleep researcher Kenneth Wright. The U.S. followed suit, adopting DST in 1918. Initially implemented as a wartime measure, it was repealed a year later.Daylight saving time was reinstituted in 1942 during World War II. The next couple decades were a free-for-all, when states and localities switched between DST and standard time (ST) at will. To put an end to the clock chaos, Congress finally passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966, which standardized daylight saving time and its start and end dates across the country — with the exception of Hawaii and Arizona, which opted to keep standard time year-round.
Colorado must have been one of the states that dropped DST after WWII because I recall it beginning in 1966 when I was 11 yrs old.