Standard Time Act


The Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act, was the first United States federal law implementing Standard time and Daylight saving time in the United States. It authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to define each time zone.
The section concerning daylight saving time was repealed by the act titled An Act For the repeal of the daylight-saving law,, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
Section 264 of the act mistakenly placed most of the state of Idaho in CST, but was amended in 2007 by Congress to MST. MST was observed prior to the correction.