TIL the US got rid of seasonal clock changes in the 70s and everyone hated it and quickly went back to the clock changes.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gdci7y/til_the_us_got_rid_of_seasonal_clock_changes_in/
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gdci7y/til_the_us_got_rid_of_seasonal_clock_changes_in/
The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s. People Hated It
The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974. Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis: most of the US went to year-round daylight saving time beg…https://www.washingtonian.com/author/abeaujon/#author (Washingtonian)
Garth Cummings •
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