Daylight Savings Time Should Move 30 Minutes... Then Stay That Way
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 5/13/2016 1:00:00 AM
Spring ahead. Fall back. Can't anyone just make up their minds?
If you were to try to explain the concept of Daylight Savings Time to somebody who never heard of it, chances are they'd think you were nuts. Twice a year, just about every clock in the world needs to be either moved forward an hour... or moved back. Think about how hard it had to be for the people who invented the idea to get almost every country in the world to agree to tell their entire population that they will be adjusting time itself, twice a year. It's mind blowing.
Don't get me wrong. I love the idea of moving the clock ahead a bit so that you get a bit more time in the sun in summer. This also means that when the fall comes, we fall back to where we started, and we lose a ton of sunshine, just as the days get shorter. That also means that the southern hemisphere would have to move their clocks in the opposite direction, but I digress.
With all this moving back and forth, wouldn't it be simpler if we just split the difference and moved ahead 30 minutes... just once... then stayed that way?
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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