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Stop Time-Change Madness: Here's a Solution

Op-Ed: Let's create a 'New Standard Time' and be done with it

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 5, 2010 3:51 PM CDT

(Newser) – This is one of Kathryn Wilkens' least favorite weekends of the year. On Sunday, she's got to reset her clocks—and her stove, and her watches, and her VCR, and ... you get the picture. But unlike a lot of others carping about the antiquated practice of converting to or from daylight saving time, she's pitching a solution:

"Let's either stay on standard time or daylight saving time year round," she writes in the Los Angeles Times. "People can't agree on which is preferable, so how about splitting the difference? This weekend, we could set the clocks back 30 minutes instead of an hour and then leave them alone. We can call it New Standard Time."

It's that time of the year again.
It's that time of the year again.   (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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WallyEFunk
Nov 7, 2010 1:13 AM CST
The more you know,, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
George-Jetson
Nov 6, 2010 11:56 AM CDT
We are going back to standard time tonight. Just leave it that way
AndJusticeForAll
Nov 6, 2010 10:57 AM CDT
This clever little move was initiated several years ago. Did changing the time make the sun shine longer? I don't think so but correct me if I'm wrong. The only thing it did was make the farmers and factory workers stay at work longer. I bet I have twenty clocks--the home, cars and our wrists. The latter takes a rocket scientist to set and I can never seem to locate the instructions. It's a pain in the ass and could be solved by a stroke of the pen if the morons in Washington could devote a few minutes away from worrying about Obama's birth certificate and try to read this bill before signing it. Have a good day.
 

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