If it matters, it'd be the dead of Winter where you wouldn't have daylight first thing in the AM.
From what I remember of the 1973 Oil Embargo, Nixon started moving the time change earlier, and the naysayers started tossing out "Chillun' be run over going to school/bus stop in the dark..."
The liberal mind-set is that no one has a brain and can't see in the dark or are unable to recognize danger and get out of the way.