More than 50 years ago, President Richard Nixon pitched a year-round extension of daylight saving time as a way to conserve energy, promising the change would cause only “a minimum of inconvenience.” Instead, his 1970s experiment unleashed wide-ranging problems he didn’t anticipate — offering what some say is a warning amid Congress’ fresh push to try again.
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