The Boston Globe, April 2nd, 2000
Today is a highly significant date, big enough for Congress to declare a national holiday: Call it Daylight Saving Day or, better yet, Spring Forward Day. It was Congress, after all, that in 1967 made permanent the idea of stretching our spring evenings by one luminous hour. It was probably the last unambiguously positive act Congress ever made, with the possible exception of the law passed in 1986 that extended the daylight season, starting it three weeks earlier in April and ending it three weeks later in October. Because daylight saving always falls on the first weekend in April, today - Ap...
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