You can thank daylight saving time for Sunday’s revision to the sunrise schedule. Overnight, daylight saving time kicked in, giving us an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon and stealing an hour of sleep. “There’s only, right now, three choices: year-round daylight saving time, year-round standard time, and what we have,” the author of “Saving the Daylight” said. History somewhat repeated itself in 2021 with the Sunshine Protection Act (S-623) to make daylight saving time permanent. Daylight saving was established by Germany in 1916 during World War I as an energy-saving measure, and the U.S. followed suit two years later .

Source: Los Angeles Times March 08, 2026 21:47 UTC