Daylight Saving Time (Sommerzeit in German) was introduced during The Great War by the German Empire in 1916. Although other governments had talked about introducing Daylight Savings Time, nothing had become law before this time.
Germany and its WW I allies started using Daylight Savings Time on April 30, 1916 to conserve coal. Britain and many European nations adopted it soon afterwards, Russia in 1917, and America in 1918.
Observation of Daylight Savings Time ended with the war in November 1918, but was reintroduced in Germany by the Nazis in 1940 to save energy for the war economy.
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