Mrs. Gunn's Diary: Feb. 9, 1942

The country goes under Daylight Savings Time; it was sometimes called 'war time'

“Arose at the crack of dawn today,” Mrs. Culp wrote in her diary on this cold but sunny Monday morning. “Starting the daylight saving plan so that we can save on electric power.”Also, as she predicted, Mrs. Gunn’s son Bob had recovered from his upset stomach but not had developed a cold.

The United States would observe DST, sometimes called “war time,” for the next three and a half years. Paid subscribers can read about the DST history in the U.S.

The 1918 poster here dates from the first World War and was issued by a chain of cigar stores. It is from the Princeton University Poster Collection at the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives accessed via Wikipedia.