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House, Senate negotiators agree to scale back daylight-saving time proposal

WASHINGTON (AP) - An agreement was reached Thursday to extend daylight-saving time in an effort to conserve energy, but not to the extent the House of Representatives approved in April.

House and Senate negotiators on an energy bill agreed to begin daylight-saving time a week earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and extend it by three weeks to the first Sunday in November. The House bill would have added a month in the spring and another in the fall.

According to some senators, farmers complained that a two-month extension could adversely affect livestock, and airline officials said it would have complicated scheduling of international flights.

"We ought to take a hard look at this before we jump into it," said Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho), who questioned how much oil savings the extension would produce.

http://www.therecord.com/news/world/w072199A.html (ontario canada newspaper)