THE PEACEKEEPER
STARFLEET
2011 CHAPTER
NEWSLETTER
OF THE YEAR
USS Niagara, NCC-75634
Volume 12, Issue 09
A Member Group of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.
November 2013
Daylight Saving Time has been used in the U.S. and in many European countries since World War I. At that
me, in an e?ort to conserve fuel needed to produce electric power, Germany and Austria took me by the forelock, and began saving daylight at 11:00 p.m. on April 30, 1916, by advancing the hands of the clock one hour un l
the following October. Other countries immediately adopted this 1916 ac on: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Tasmania. Nova Sco a and Manitoba adopted it as
well, with Britain following suit three weeks later, on May 21, 1916. In 1917, Australia and Newfoundland began saving daylight.
The plan was not formally adopted in the U.S. un l 1918. 'An Act to preserve daylight and provide standard
me for the United States' was enacted on March 19, 1918. It both established standard me zones and set summer
DST to begin on March 31, 1918. Daylight Saving Time was observed for seven months in 1918 and 1919. A er the
War ended, the law proved so unpopular (mostly because people rose earlier and went to bed earlier than people
do today) that it was repealed in 1919 with a Congressional override of President Wilson's veto. Daylight Saving
Time became a local op on, and was con nued in a few states, such as MassachuSee TIME continued on pg. 2