Daylight Saving Time All Year Long
These days, Daylight Saving Time is a twice-yearly annoyance. But about 75 years ago, on Feb. 9, 1942, it became an all-year-round money-saving war measure. It was then that President Franklin Roosevelt set America's clocks forward an hour for the duration of World War II. The projected savings by not having to light factories after dark was 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, TIME reported. As for objections that farm work would be thrown off by having to rise even earlier? "To these outcries, lean, long Representative Clarence F. Lea of California retorted," according to the magazine, "that cows, like people, soon accustom themselves to new habits."
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