"Permanent daylight saving time was enacted for the winter of 1974, but there were complaints of children going to school in the dark and working people commuting and starting their work day in pitch darkness during the winter, and it was repealed a year later."
That is what I remember and why it failed.
a wartime measure for seven months during World War I in the interest of adding more daylight hours to conserve energy resources.
It didn't conserve energy resources.
Interesting and not surprising to learn the wartime cause for DST.
You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
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