https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/03/25/editorial-we-tried-year-round-daylight-saving-time-in-1974-people-hated-it/

In December 1973, in the midst of an energy crisis, President Richard Nixon signed into law a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent for two years, beginning Jan. 1, 1974.

People hated it. They didn’t like the 8:30 a.m. sunrise for the vast majority of Americans. And they were appalled at the early reports from Florida of eight children hit and killed by cars while heading to school in the dark.