Daylight Savings Time, Threat or Menace?

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March 12, 2016

Daylight Savings Time, Threat or Menace?

Today is the worst day of the year: The day you give up an hour of sleep. The long-delayed hangover from the Time Party you had last fall.

 

I think Fox just said 13 states were debating getting rid of it, though people aren't agreed on whether they should switch over permanently to standard time, or to savings time.

 

This blog is all about getting rid of this.

 

I object to this, for several reasons. You have probably heard it's simply wrong that it saves energy. You probably also know that, far from reducing car accidents, it causes more of then, as people are shaken too early from bed and get into collisions, still half-groggy.

 

But consider this on a sort of paranoid, social-control order: