Daylight saving time continues despite broad frustration: ‘People wanted to ditch the switch’

As you change your clocks this weekend to mark the end of daylight saving time, you might think: Didn’t we end this?

Technically, yes, though it seems likely the biannual time change will continue for the foreseeable future.

The tradition dates back to 1933, when Seattle became the first city in the state to observe daylight saving time. Spokane, and other cities, quickly joined, though the lack of a uniform time across the state began to create scheduling chaos and confusion, and cities soon returned to standard time.

Seattle tried daylight saving time again in 1948, though that, too, was short-lived, as Washington voters banned it in 1952. Voters reversed course eight years later, and approved statewide daylight saving, which was later federally mandated by the 1966 Uniform Time Act.