Daylight Saving Time

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by billintulsa

The only thing I don't understand is the fact that every year we hear how beneficial it is to "spring forward."  If it is beneficial, why don't we just stay on that time year 'round?

As I mentioned previously, the U.S. did try to implement year-round DST back in the fall of 1973 during the Arab oil embargo.  The public hated it and Congress repealed the law after only a few months.  I was a jr. in high school at the time; as I recall, the loudest public objection was from parents of young school children that didn't want their kids to walk to school or wait outside on school busses in the dark.