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Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time (Was: American Airlines - Last one standing) Posted on: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:49:07 GMT

Steve wrote:

> Excerpts from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/opinion/09downing.html
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> After nearly 100 years, daylight saving has yet to save us anything.

And you know this because..........

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> Richard Nixon infamously mandated year-round daylight saving in 1974
> and 1975.

How did he manage this, by Executive order?
Not really, Congress passed the law and he signed it. You make it sound
like something Nixon stood alone on. It's a bit like blaming Bush for
the war. Bush didn't have any power to do anything without Congressional
approval.