Oh please ... Paul Poast, an International Relations and Foreign Policy prof at the University of Chicago, shares the origins of this nuisance in a tweet thread. The Great War in Europe of 1914-18 inspired the idea among belligerents in order to save coal (it probably didn't). The U.S. played along when we joined the fray in 1917.
The idea required some public education. Note it was "for the soldiers."
After the war we just kept this novelty and are STILL trying to get rid of it.
Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) have repeatedly introduced legislation to keep us permanently on what is now called Daylight Saving Time. Now that's some bipartisanship. I'm all in for their bill.
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Hawaii and Arizona have no daylight saving time. I've never missed it.
Permanent standard time is better.
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