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{"id":26448,"date":"2013-11-04T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:54:25","slug":"time-to-reconsider-daylight-saving-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2013\/11\/04\/time-to-reconsider-daylight-saving-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to reconsider daylight saving time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
After \u201cfalling back\u201d an hour over the past weekend, we\u2019re all blearily adjusting to the time shift imposed on us by the end of daylight saving time. The pros and cons of artificially manipulating time twice a year get lots of attention every time we go through this ritual\u2014especially in the spring, when \u201cspringing forward\u201d results in very dark morning wakeup times for schoolchildren. By the way, while we have standardized the practice, we still don’t know if it’s “daylight savings<\/em> time, with an s\u00a0at the end, or just daylight saving time, sans s.<\/em> Also, my inner grammarian wants to pick this nit: Shouldn’t this compound adjective be hyphenated to read “daylight-saving[s] time?” But I digress.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0Of course, it wouldn’t be completely accurate to say that we’ve standardized daylight-saving[s] time. There’s still a pastiche of states and counties that operate by their own rules. And a\u00a0few years ago, Congress itself time warped the time warp, declaring that daylight-saving[s] time should end a week later in November–thereby making Trick or Treating a less spooky experience for the kiddies–or some such rationale. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
This\u00a0weekend, after adjusting all of the timepieces in my house and car, I happened on a quote about daylight-saving[s] time. [Full disclosure: I had to piece the quote together letter by letter, because it was the solution to the New York Times <\/em>Sunday acrostic puzzle.] It yields an interesting context for the history of our time-honored, time\u00a0tripping tradition:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Lobbying for daylight saving time started about one hundred years ago, just eighty years after time was standardized. Before trains traversed the continent, it didn\u2019t matter that time was different in different towns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>-Seth Godin, Small is the New Big<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It matters now. And this year, using the bully [or sometimes bullshit] pulpit of the White House\u2019s on-line petition site, someone has proposed a novel idea: \u201cPermanently retire daylight savings time and change from four time zones in the continental United States to two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the wording of the petition, which spells out the idea, the rationale, and the methodology. What do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n