Flashback: For Texas Parents, Daylight Saving Time Was a Step ‘too Far'

"This time the federal government has gone too far."So begins Ann Melvin's impassioned column for The Dallas Morning News.She was referring to the Uniform Time Act, the piece of U.S. federal legislation that standardized the collective time hop we do once in the spring, and once in the fall. It was passed in 1966, but April 30, 1967 was when all states would collectively begin observing daylight saving time for the first time.   Continue reading...