Don’t forget to turn your clocks back an hour this Sunday, November 5, 2017! It is a common misconception that daylight saving time was created in the aid of farmers, to allow an extra hour of sunlight to work their fields. But Great Plains Communications has looked to our cable channel, the History Channel to bring you the real reason we “fall back” and “spring forward”.
We adjust our clocks twice a year due to energy conservation and an attempt to match daylight hours to times when the majority of people are awake, dating back to 1895. According to the History Channel, “the first real experiments with daylight saving time began during World War I,” on April 30, 1916. In an effort to conserve electricity needed for war effort, Germany and Austria enforced a one-hour clock shift. The United States later adopted daylight saving in 1918.