Before looking it up, I'd thought that it happened EVERY YEAR since WWI, but obviously not. So, you're remembering just one of the times that permanent DST was enacted. I don't think that any of us were alive during WWII during the first times of permanent DST. Some might possibly remember when switching began again in 1966?
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DST was first implemented in the US with the Standard Time Act of 1918, a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources. Year-round DST, or "War Time", was implemented again during World War II.
After the war, local jurisdictions were free to choose if and when to observe DST until the Uniform Time Act which standardized DST in 1966. Permanent daylight saving time was enacted for the winter of 1974, but there were complaints of children going to school in the dark and working people commuting and starting their work day in pitch darkness during the winter, and it was repealed a year later.
Currently, I believe that only one state doesn't observe DST switching. Not sure which one, but it is in the southwest, near you.
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