On Tuesday, March 15, the United States Senate approved the Sunshine Protection Act, which, if approved by the House and signed by President Joe Biden, would make DST permanent from November 2023. But why on earth do we have DST, so much? to begin?
The introduction of daylight saving time is often credited to Benjamin Franklin, who joked that by waking up to the already high sun, candles and lamp oil could be saved. It was actually the New Zealand astronomer and entomologist George Hudson who, in 1895, proposed changing the time to have more natural light for studying insects.
The United States adopted daylight saving time in 1918 to save energy during World War I, then again in World War II, according to Smithsonian magazine. Some states maintained it, others did not and in 1966, the Uniform time act established the daylight saving time and the solar time for the whole country.
(Translation by Federico Ferrone)