Daylight saving time is one again front and center in the news headlines as politicians across the country pounce on the opportunity to introduce legislation to permanently keep our clocks in daylight saving mode. While is no Congressional act needed to keep Florida in standard time throughout the year and negate the need to ever change our clocks again, politicians and the public have forgotten that the United States did attempt to remain in daylight savings time year-round before. In 1973, the members of OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo against the United States and other nations, which led to the beginning of 1970s energy crisis. The country was looking for ways to save energy. From gas rationing at the pumps to creating the first-ever national speed limit of 55mph on the highways. Congress looked into using the sun's light to replace artificial lighting at offices and work sites and passed The Emergency Daylight Saving Time Act of 1973, which dictated that clocks would spring forward one hour on January 6, 1974 and remain unchanged for 24 months. President Nixon hailed the move as a way to save an estimated 150,000 barrels of oil a day, will mean only a minimum of inconvenience. However by fall, with mornings remaining in darkness well into the 8am and approaching the 9am hour and the oil saving never really materializing, Congress quickly amended the law to return to standard time on October 27, 1974. The next year, the law returned us to daylight saving time in February and ending in October and finally returning the time change to April and October. Conversely, if we remained in standard time, morning would begin much earlier (sunrise 4am anyone?) and twilight during the longest summer months beginning in the 8pm hour. The last time dates for the time change were made was in 2007 with the Energy Policy Act establishing the current windows of the second Sunday of March and first Sunday of November as the official days to move clocks back and forth. As much grumbling as we made moving our clocks, it apparently is less grumbling than leaving clocks unchanged year round.