G'morning Roy,

 DW> Back in the 1970's, the Yanks tried keeping DST all year round.
 RW> I've been around quite a while in the USA and I don't recall keeping
 RW> DST all year round. You're probably thinking of the Brits, who tried
 RW> that from 1968-71.
 DW> (Here in Canada, we didn't.) The result was a big increase in road
 DW> accidents during the morning rush-hour. The experiment was soon
 DW> ended.
 RW> During WW2, the Brits kept BDST all year round. (BDST was British
 RW> Double Savings Time, aka 2 hours ahead of their normal GMT.

Mmmm... I seem to remember reading that we British adopted a +1 
hour daylight saving during WW1,  a scheme that was tried briefly 
by the USA in 1917-18.

But, prompted by David's memory, I'm now fairly certain that 
Britain went to Double Daylight Saving during summer (GMT + 2hrs) 
- and to ordinary daylight saving (GMT + 1hr) throughout winter - 
for the whole of WW2.

I also remember reading somewhere that the USA went to continuous 
daylight saving from 1942 to 1945 ... probably needs verifying.

And incidentally,  am I wrong is thinking that the whole idea was 
first dreamnt up by Benjamin Franklin ?

Miles.
 
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