Daylight savings time was initiated back when we were a Nation of many family farms . The evening daylight offered the farmers more light to harvest their summer crops including hay and straw .
The Carter Administration and not as someone said " Tricky Dick " came up with the idea to push Daylight Savings time out a couple more months as an effort to save energy --- No I don`t recall how that was supposed to help !
However not long after Mr. Carter initiated this program it was realized that school children who had to wait at neighborhood school bus stops or walk to their local schools were
subject to some tragic and sadly fatal accidents in the dark mornings so the period for Daylight Savings time was again modified .
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