1974? Google, take me back to 1974:I can’t believe you people are making me explain this again, but: year-round daylight saving is bad; we tried it in 1974, people hated it and we repealed it; it will be fucking dark at 8am for weeks; even Putin failed when he tried to inflict it on Russia. https://t.co/IAe67NH9Zx
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 16, 2022
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the “interlock” system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened...”Yup. Seat belts, bitches. Seat belt ignition interlock was a huge advance in auto safety. And it flamed out miserably because EVERYBODY hated it. It was a bridge too far, an attempt too much, an effort no one wanted once they got it. Introduced (read: mandated, au courant speech) in 1973, it was revoked in 1974. Of course what I remember is not that the vox populi was listened to, but that even Congresscritters didn’t like living with what they’d done.
Probably the same reason full-time DST only lasted a year.
Anything that gets unanimous approval and excites the junior Senator from Arizona (which is a state that does not observe DST at all) has serious problems ahead. Of the “be careful what you wish for” variety.
And yes, year-round DST was, as the tweet asserted, a mess. Here's the preview of your future:
But while the experiment initially proved popular, with 79 percent of Americans expressing support for the change in December 1973, approval quickly plummeted, dropping to 42 percent by February 1974, reported the New York Times’ Anthony Ripley in October of that year.I remember that, too, though I’d forgotten the year. And no, I’m not crazy: DST does suck.
But now I’ve lived long enough to see history repeat itself, twice.Daylight saving time doesn't "'save' evening light at all, it simply steals it from the morning when it is necessary to maintain our healthy biological rhythms."
— Allyson Chiu (@_allysonchiu) March 16, 2022
Why many sleep experts say the U.S. should adopt permanent standard time, not daylight savinghttps://t.co/cgl3DI4JVP
Old age is a bitch! And we really are the most history ignorant country on the planet; which keeps us going in circles. It’s like having one foot nailed to the floor; and the circuit only takes 48 years. I hope this doesn’t mean disco is coming back...🪩 🕺
Stick To Standard Time. You have to wonder at people who don't learn from even that history they lived through.
ReplyDeleteI still remember a Pat Oliphant cartoon, two kids, bundled up, standing in three feet of snow, in the dark, at a school bus stop, and one says to the other, “I’d impeach him for Daylight Savings Time.”
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