You Can Blame the Candy Industry for November Daylight Saving Time
To end the week of Halloween, here’s a crazy tale of an entire industry pushing to change the law of the land. Daylight Saving Time annoys the hell out of everyone twice a year, but the story behind how it got the way it is today is kind of fascinating.
Before 1966, Daylight Saving Time in the United States was set via a patchwork of state and local laws, often causing conflict and confusion.
Realizing they had a problem on their hands, Congress passed The Uniform Time act in ’66, decreeing that DST “begins on the last Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday in October.”
The folks behind Big Candy weren’t too happy with this, though.
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