(FOXNEWS) – The federal government enacted nationwide
Daylight Saving Time amid the darkest depths of wartime
fears on this day in history, Feb. 9, 1942.

"Passed by Congress and signed into law by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the year-round daylight saving time
required that clocks be moved ahead one hour for the
remainder of the war as a national defense measure to
conserve energy," notes Fishwrap, a blog of historic
newspaper headlines.

The federal action went into effect just two months after
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United
States into World War II. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

The first peace treaty of World War I was signed when the newly
declared independent state of Ukraine officially came to terms
with the Central Powers at 2 a.m. in Berlin, Germany, on February
9, 1918.

In the treaty, the Central Powers, which included the governments
of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and Turkey, formally
recognized the independence of Ukraine from Russia. The
Central Powers also agreed to provide military assistance and
protection from the Bolshevik forces of Russia that were
occupying Ukrainian territory. In exchange, the Ukrainian
National Republic would provide 100 million tons of food
rations to Germany.

Weather scanner complete with gauges was used by some cablecasters. The scanning mirror reflects readings on
gauges and card announcements to camera above. Music
was sometimes also transmitted on this same channel.