<P> Starting on April 30 , 1916 , the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria - Hungary introduced DST ( German : Sommerzeit ) as a way to conserve coal during wartime . Britain , most of its allies , and many European neutrals soon followed suit . Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year , and the United States adopted daylight saving in 1918 . </P>
<P> Starting on April 30 , 1916 , the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria - Hungary introduced DST ( German : Sommerzeit ) as a way to conserve coal during wartime . Britain , most of its allies , and many European neutrals soon followed suit . Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year , and the United States adopted daylight saving in 1918 . </P>
when was daylight savings invented in the us
when was daylight savings invented in the us
1918
1918