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The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the ’70s. People Hated It
washingtonian.com ^ | March 15, 2022 | ANDREW BEAUJON

Posted on 03/16/2022 10:08:39 AM PDT by PROCON

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I was a young man in that era but I really don't remember the switch.

Anyone remember?

1 posted on 03/16/2022 10:08:39 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

“Anyone remember?”

Nope.


2 posted on 03/16/2022 10:10:14 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE ( ‘When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.’)
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To: PROCON

We already got the Carter economy back..

Let’s have the no time change back too..


3 posted on 03/16/2022 10:10:26 AM PDT by uranium penguin
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People also wore bell bottoms and watched sonny and cher. So what the hell did they know?


4 posted on 03/16/2022 10:10:38 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: PROCON

I was in the Marine Corps at the time.

We always awoke in the dark...............


5 posted on 03/16/2022 10:11:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: PROCON

I was teen. No I don’t remember it.


6 posted on 03/16/2022 10:11:19 AM PDT by stanne
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To: PROCON

Barely.

Just start school later. Not rocket science.


7 posted on 03/16/2022 10:11:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

DST dates back to the 1700 and Ben Franklin.


8 posted on 03/16/2022 10:12:45 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: PROCON

Kids died all over the country hit by cars, walking to school / waiting for busses in the dark.


9 posted on 03/16/2022 10:13:04 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Larry Lucido

Or lock in standard time instead of locking in daylight savings time.


10 posted on 03/16/2022 10:13:34 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: PROCON

If only we could get rid of conservatives, our poor planet’s axis would go back to its non-tilted state.


11 posted on 03/16/2022 10:13:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: PROCON

They don’t like DST?

Then make it standard time year round.

Just stop making people change their clocks twice a year.

It’s just another example of out of congtrol government.


12 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:00 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: PROCON

Good article. I did not know this was already tried and failed for a variety of reasons.


13 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:11 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: PROCON

Educators are so hide-bound that they can’t schedule school to begin at an appropriate time during the year?


14 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:15 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: PROCON

I remember

A local farmer suddenly had his barn in a different time zone from his house 100 feet away


15 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:30 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Red Badger

I was in the Marine Corps at the time.

We always awoke in the dark...............

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Even with DST, in the middle of winter, anyone who commutes at 7am is in the dark. What is worse is that it’s dark at 5pm on the short days when many people are leaving work. It’s always a trade off.

It’s going to be dark for most people anyway. Darkness happens. DST is trying to hard to be cute and clever.


16 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:50 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: PROCON

I remember it well. Didn’t like it.


17 posted on 03/16/2022 10:14:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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To: PROCON

I was a senior in high school. Don’t really remember it.


18 posted on 03/16/2022 10:16:29 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: PROCON

I remember. I can also remember taking a flashlight to the bus pickup spot a block away from my home. We were victims of the forced bussing experiment that only inflamed racial resentment.


19 posted on 03/16/2022 10:17:43 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: PROCON

Distinctly—was in HIgh School. Ariound the same time the school district tried the 45-15 plan for a year. Go to school 45 days and off for 15——stuydents in the class coiuld find themselvfes on different tracks as 25 percent of the students were always gone at any time It was a failure.


20 posted on 03/16/2022 10:18:02 AM PDT by abigkahuna (15)
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