Don't forget to set your clocks "forward" one hour before you go to bed this Saturday, April 1st

Don't forget to set your clocks "forward" one hour before you go to bed this Saturday, April 1st!!--not an April fool's joke that history lesson comes later :)

Daylight Saving (no "S") Time has been used in the United States and many European countries since World War One. In an effort to conserve fuel, Germany and Austria began setting clocks ahead one hour during the spring months through the fall. This 1916 action was immediately copied by 14 other European countries, including Britain. The following year, Australia, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia followed suite. The plan was not adopted by the U.S. until 1918 but proved to be so unpopular that it was repealed by President Wilson in 1919. DST became a local option and was continued in many states and cities. During World War Two, President Roosevelt instituted year-round Daylight Saving Time, called "War Time". After the War, and until 1966, there was no federal law about DST. States and localities were free to chose whether to observe DST and could chose when it began and ended. This, however, lead to mass confusion for the broadcasting industry, railways, airlines, and bus companies. One example: On one 35 mile stretch of highway between Moundsville, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio, passengers would pass through seven time changes. On April 12, 1966, President Johnson signed into law the Uniform Time Act. This act established a system of uniform DST throughout the U.S., exempting only those states in which the legislatures voted to keep their state (or a portion of their state) on Standard Time. In 1986 Ronald Reagan, made a small change to the current system where Day Light Saving Time takes place on the First Sunday in April (prior to Reagan it was the last Sunday) to the Last Sunday in Oct. Daylight Saving Time is NOT observed in Hawaii, the Eastern Time Zone of Indiana or Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Indian Reservation).

So remember "Spring" Forward---"Fall" Back :)