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  • 1780s

    • 1784: As Franklin's 1784 satire pointed out, lighting costs are reduced if the evening reduction outweighs the morning increase, as in high-latitude summer when most people wake up well after sunrise. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1784: This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1784: Daylight saving time (DST) is often erroneously attributed to a 1784 satire that Franklin published anonymously. - Benjamin Franklin, Wikipedia.
  • 1850s

  • 1890s

    • 1895: Modern DST was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1895: He presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[19] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, New Zealand he followed up in an 1898 paper. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
  • 1900s

    • 1905: Many publications incorrectly credit DST's invention to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[21] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1907: Willett's 1907 proposal argued that DST increases opportunities for outdoor leisure activities during afternoon sunlight hours. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1907: The fate of Willett's 1907 proposal illustrates several political issues involved. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1907: Willett's 1907 proposal used the term daylight saving, but by 1911 the term summer time replaced daylight saving time in draft legislation in Britain,[38] and continental Europe uses similar phrases, such as Sommerzeit in Germany and l'heure d'été in France. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • May, 1909: Was even more skeptical: Andrew Peters introduced a DST bill to the U.S. House of Representatives in May 1909, but it soon died in committee. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1909: After many hearings the proposal was narrowly defeated in a Parliament committee vote in 1909. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
  • 1910s

    • 1911: Willett's allies introduced similar bills every year from 1911 through 1914, to no avail. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1915: As described in Politics below, Willett lobbied unsuccessfully for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • April 30, 1916: Starting on 30 April 1916, Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett's invention as a way to conserve coal during wartime. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • May 21, 1916: After Germany led the way, the United Kingdom first used DST on May 21, 1916. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1916: Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time - Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April, Wikipedia.
    • 1916: Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time - Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 30, Wikipedia.
    • 1916: Daylight saving time first introduced as temporary wartime measure - History of Tasmania, Wikipedia.
    • 1916: Although the zoneinfo database quotes Nova Scotia and Manitoba as having adopted daylight saving time in 1916 or 1917, references to legislation and dates thereof are scarce. - Daylight Saving Act of 1917, Wikipedia.
    • 1917: The Daylight Saving Act of 1917 was an enacted by the Dominion of Newfoundland to adopt daylight saving time (DST), thus making it one of the first jurisdictions in North America to do so, only a year after the United Kingdom on May 21, 1916. - Daylight Saving Act of 1917, Wikipedia.
    • 1917: The U.S.'s 1917 entry to the war overcame objections, and DST was established in 1918. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1918: Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year and the United States adopted it in 1918. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1918: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. - Portal:United States/On this day/March 31, Wikipedia.
    • 1918: Summer time was first introduced by the German occupation in 1918, and continued until the end of the Second World War. - Time in Belgium, Wikipedia.
    • 1919: Was more typical: Congress repealed DST after 1919. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1919: A summer daylight saving time was observed in 1919 in Tianjin and Shanghai, and part of China from 1935 to 1962, and again the whole country from 1986 through 1991. - Time in China, Wikipedia.
  • 1920s

    • 1920s: Britain was an exception: it retained DST nationwide but over the years adjusted transition dates for several reasons, including special rules during the 1920s and 1930s to avoid clock shifts on Easter mornings. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
    • 1922: Reasoning that people should instead get up and go to work earlier in the summer, he ordered District of Columbia federal employees to start work at 08:00 rather than 09:00 during summer 1922. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
  • 1940s

  • 1950s

  • 1960s

  • 1970s

  • 1980s

  • 1990s

  • 2000s


    • 2000

      • 2000: When parts of Australia began DST in late winter, overall electricity consumption did not decrease, but the morning peak load and prices increased. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2000: Although it has been argued that clock shifts correlate with decreased economic efficiency, and that in 2000 the daylight-saving effect implied an estimated one-day loss of $31 billion on U.S. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.

    • 2004

      • , 2004: Since the adoption of Daylight Saving Time, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard will usually run past 6 PM. - 2004 Indianapolis 500, Wikipedia.

    • 2005

      • 2005: The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: The 2005 Israeli Daylight Saving Law established predictable rules using the Jewish calendar but Windows zone files cannot represent the rules' dates in a year-independent way. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: Change was part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005; previously, from 1987 through 2006, the start and end dates were the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October, and Congress retains the right to go back to the previous dates now that an energy-consumption study has been done. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: For example, before 2005, DST in Israel varied each year and was skipped some years. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: Beginning with the 2005 races, the issue became moot as the state of Indiana finally decided to go to daylight saving time. - Coca-Cola 600, Wikipedia.
      • 2005: Between 2005 and 2008, on the decision of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran did not observe daylight saving time, called Iran Daylight Time (IRDT). - Iran Standard Time, Wikipedia.

    • 2006

      • 2006: In Western Australia during summer 2006–07, DST increased electricity consumption during hotter days and decreased it during cooler days, with consumption rising 0.6% overall. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2006: The change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time in Australian states that follow it was delayed from 26 March to 2 April for 2006 to avoid affecting the games. - 2006 Commonwealth Games, Wikipedia.
      • 2006: Since Indiana went to Daylight Saving Time in 2006, this phenomenon has been somewhat dimished. - Indianapolis 500 traditions, Wikipedia.

    • 2007

      • 2007: For example, the 2007 change to DST rules in North America required many computer systems to be upgraded, with the greatest impact on email and calendaring programs like Microsoft Outlook; the upgrades consumed a significant effort by corporate information technologists. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: A 2007 study found that the earlier start to DST that year had little or no effect on electricity consumption in California. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the year. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: A 2007 study estimated that winter daylight saving would prevent a 2% increase in average daily electricity consumption in Great Britain. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: For example, a 2007 North American rule change cost an estimated $500 million to $1 billion. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: Although a 2007 study estimated that introducing DST to Japan would reduce household lighting energy consumption,[44] a 2007 simulation estimated that DST would increase overall energy use in Osaka residences by 0.13%, with a 0.02% decrease due to less lighting more than outweighed by a 0.15% increase due to extra cooling; neither study examined non-residential energy use. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2007: The games were released one hour later during daylight saving time in 2007 and 2008, but not since then. - List of Virtual Console games (PAL region), Wikipedia.
      • November 4, 2007: Daylight saving time in the United States and most of Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. - 2007 in the United States, Wikipedia.

    • 2008

      • 2008: Microsoft hinted that future versions of Windows will partially support a Windows registry entry RealTimeIsUniversal that had been introduced many years earlier, when Windows NT supported RISC machines with UTC clocks, but had not been maintained since. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: A 2008 study examined billing data in Indiana before and after it adopted DST in 2006, and concluded that DST increased overall residential electricity consumption by 1%, due mostly to extra afternoon cooling and due also to extra morning heating; the main increases came in the fall. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: In the past, Australian districts went even further and did not always agree on start and end dates; for example, in 2008 most DST-observing areas shifted clocks forward on October 5 but Western Australia shifted on October 26. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: The 2008 DOE report found no significant increase in motor gasoline consumption due to the 2007 U.S. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: Daylight saving time will be used starting from 2008 for the first time in its history. - Mauritius Time, Wikipedia.
      • 2008: The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) concluded in a 2008 report that the 2007 U.S. - Daylight saving time, Wikipedia.
      • , 2008: The switch from daylight saving time to standard time was on November 2nd. - 2008 Skate Canada International, Wikipedia.

    • 2009

  • 2010s







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