And it’s November. We turn the clocks back this weekend, which begs the question: Why are we still doing this? I don’t get it, have stopped trying. I guess because we’ve done it for so long that we just keep doing it?
Is this the last time? Does anyone know? Personally speaking, I’d be good with staying on Standard Time all year. I don’t need sunlight at 5am or until 9pm in the summer, when it’s 150 degrees out.
I guess Ben Franklin mentioned it way back when, and it went into limited practice in Europe during WWI, then it benefited farmers with more daylight in which to farm. But let’s just go with the way we kept time before the changeover was officially sanctioned in 1966.
Let’s go back to just plain old Standard Time, because that’s the most “natural,” considering that timekeeping is a human construct, anyway.
Or, is there a more beneficial, sensible way of organizing our 24 hours? If there is, let’s legislate the hell out of it and stick with it, chalk one up for bipartisanship.
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