October 2026

In 1985, the candy industry lobbyists made their first attempt to get the Daylight Saving Time extension (sending the end date back merely a week) enacted with a little bit of bribery–a very little bit.

Before the relevant hearing, they took to the Senate chambers with a bag of candy pumpkins in hand, placing some of the treat on each senator’s chair. But  Congress returned a trick, keeping the clock rollback date to a time before Halloween. Not until twenty years later, under the 2005 bill, (the energy policy act) did the candy industry get its desired outcome.

Borrowed by Daheap from Now I Know; Dan Lewis