Daylight Savings Time

[Bizer]

Originally Posted by Woodsy

This has been tried before and failed.... miserably! Under Nixon. I don't think it made it a year before it daylight savings was restored!

Unfortunately (as usual) People forget history!

I see very few people on the east coast being happy with 8:30am sunrise!

Woodsy

Those that do not remember history are doomed to repeat it. (I should know. I took it three times). Congress tried permanent DST 1974. Doesn’t anyone else remember that? Year ‘round DST was repealed by the end of the year, just as Woodsy said. The primary reason was that children would be walking to school in total darkness.

The people on the east coast are one thing, it's the people who live on the western side of the time zones that have more to lose. Here are some DST January sunrise times in selected cities:
09:01 Detroit;
09:05 Indianapolis;
09:32 Marquette MI
08:51 Minneapolis, MN
09:12 Fargo, ND
09:35 Minot, ND
09:44 Williston, ND << Winner
08:45 Salt Lake City
09:18 Boise, ID
09:27 Kalispell, MT
08:57 Seattle

Year 'round DST is not the panacea you think it is.