WASHINGTON — Like clockwork, daylight saving time strikes again this weekend. Watch for it at 2 a.m. local time Sunday in most of the United States. Don't forget to set your clocks an hour ahead, usually before bed Saturday night, to avoid being late for Sunday morning activities. With the annual change,...
5 Ways Life Would Be Better if It Were Always Daylight Saving Time
In my research on daylight saving time, I have found that Americans don’t like it when Congress messes with their clocks. In an effort to avoid the biannual clock switch in spring and fall, some well-intended critics of DST have made the mistake of suggesting that the abolition of DST...
Don’t Fall Back on Springing Time Forward This Weekend
There's no time like the present to watch the shifting sands of the hourglass foretell the inevitable forward march of time. It's time again to abide by the old adage to spring forward (though it's not yet spring) and mark the shift from standard to daylight saving time. The change...
Roll Back the Clock on Daylight Saving Time Scam
Daylight saving time is a scam. First proposed by Ben Franklin (with tongue firmly in cheek) in 1784 as a way of conserving candlepower, DST does not save any energy or produce any other measurable benefits, but does, in fact, impose real costs on many people around the world, forcing...