So even if the measure is a heartening demonstration that the U.S. For Floridians, beach time after work! Yes, depressing winter mornings but safer driving on the way home from work. But air conditioning wasn't in use yet and late afternoons in Florida before the sun goes down now is prime time for compressors to be hardest at work compressing.īottom line: Marginal at best energy savings. Longer daylight in the afternoons encouraged more people to be on the road in the early evening.Įnergy savings? When President Woodrow Wilson called for imposing daylight saving time during World War I, it saved energy on lighting. Gas savings? Negligible, according to a Department of Transportation study at the time. Dark mornings at the bus stop soured a lot of parents on year-round daylight savings time.
Year-round daylight savings time was popular when it took effect, but the public turned on it within a year. Still, there was a lot of public unhappiness, which was what Askew was reacting to. (The Panhandle is in the Central time zone, which complicated things.) The Legislature refused with a quick vote, and members turned around and went home, no doubt grumbling all the way. Reubin Askew called a short-notice special session in January 1974 to take peninsular Florida off daylight saving time altogether. "Daylight saving time all year would be intolerable" was the headline in a Daytona Beach Evening News editorial as the measure breezed through Congress.īut after eight Florida schoolchildren died in predawn car crashes, Gov. If the regular daylight saving time season saved energy, it seemed to follow that permanent daylight saving time would save even more.īut the result was long, dark morning hours come wintertime. The idea was that this would save energy. Ancient history from the days of the old ones. The last time Congress voted to put the nation on year-round daylight saving time came in 1973, the start of the '70s energy crisis. And yet, sad to say, sometimes excellent springtime ideas don't always feel the same come wintertime. So I, of all people, should be applauding this action, right? No harsh transitioning with the time shift.
I am not to be trusted operating heavy machinery or motor vehicles on busy streets in single-digit morning hours, so working from home has lately suited me fine. I eat at places that stick with their breakfast menu well after noontime while withholding judgment on customers. I'll pay quite a bit extra for later flights out of town. I don't attend breakfast meetings or post sunrises on Instagram. This is not a moral failing I was born that way. I organize my life around being a slow riser. It was especially hard on me back when my kids were teenagers and their high school's late bell rang at 7:20 a.m., a time that we used to call "6:20" only the week before the time change. And why not? April's clock change can be painful.
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