Senate bill would force millions of children to head to school in the dark for three months of the year.
In December 1973, in the midst of an energy crisis, President Richard Nixon signed into law a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent for two years, beginning Jan. 1, 1974.
By February, even the co-author of the bill, Rep. William Ketchum, R-Calif., was having second thoughts. “The time to admit a mistake is when you’ve made one,” Ketchum told the New York Times. Nixon resigned in August in the wake of the Watergate investigation. In September, Congress sent President Gerald Ford a bill repealing the law, and on Oct. 27, Americans rolled back their clocks.
California voters already endorsed the concept when they passed Proposition 7 in 2018. Supporters then, as they do now, argue that it would create more economic activity if people have more daylight hours in the late afternoon and evening. They also say Americans would greatly prefer not having to set their clocks ahead in the spring and back in the fall.Consider California, where 6 million children attend K-12 schools.
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