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WHEN TIME CHANGE FAILED

  • dreppond
  • Oct 30, 2023
  • 1 min read

For ten months in the mid-1970s, America’s clocks sprang forward and never fell back.

Year-round daylight saving time (DST), signed into law by President Richard Nixon in January 1974, sought to maximize evening sunlight and, in doing so, help mitigate an ongoing national gas prices. But while the experiment initially proved popular, with 79 percent of Americans expressing support for the change in December 1973, approval quickly plummeted, dropping to 42 percent by February 1974.



 
 
 

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