NOVEMBER 3

Daylight saving time is going to end soon,

meaning soon it will start to get dark at what many have

argued is an inconveniently early time.

In the fall, clocks “fall back” an hour as a holdover from war times.

DST was first enacted by the federal government on March 19, 1918,

as a measure to save on fuel costs during World War I

by adding an extra hour of sunlight to the day, according to the Library of Congress.

But DST didn’t become federal law until 1966,

with passage of the Uniform Time Act.

It established DST from the last Sunday of April

through the last Sunday of October.