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Proof daylight saving time is dumb, dangerous, and costly

by d0ugie on 3/11/17, 12:07 AM with 10 comments

• by byoung2 on 3/11/17, 12:25 AM

  As Hawaii and Arizona show, the US government gives states a choice as to whether to adopt daylight saving time. But states aren’t currently allowed to switch to daylight saving time year-round.

  I didn't know that states couldn't choose permanent daylight savings time. That might explain the hesitation to get rid of time changes...if it means being stuck with dark evenings all year round, I wouldn't want to change either. I want daylight savings all year round.

• by perilunar on 3/11/17, 7:17 AM

  Those people in the comments that want permanent daylight saving: it's easy - leave you clocks on standard time and just get up an hour earlier every day!

  (One day I'm going to move to the country and set my clocks to local mean time, and rise at dawn, go to bed soon after sunset, and adopt a biphasic sleep pattern where I get up in the middle of the night to watch the stars.)

• by chmaynard on 3/11/17, 10:52 AM

  Sheesh! This is nothing more than a rant. Does the Boston Globe always present opinion pieces like this as news?