Who else remembers this? Getting ready for school and it being dark. I didn’t understand the logic but i figured. I’m just a kid. The grownups know what they are doing. HA.
We already ran this experiment. In January 1974, during the oil embargo, Nixon signed a law that kept daylight time all winter.
Polls started near 80 percent in favor. Then the sun came up after 8 a.m., kids walked to school in the dark, and support crashed to about 42 percent by February. Congress repealed it before the second winter. Ford put standard time back on October 27, 1974.
The House just passed the same idea again, 308–117. Later sunsets, sunrise around 8:20 here in South Jersey. History already filed the complaint.