Why You Can’t Stop Reading About Daylight Saving Time

As a newsroom weve attacked it from every possible angle: The clocks are changing for one of the last times ever; they should stop changing the clocks; they should stop changing the clocks to make us healthier and more productive; what if they abolished time zones and stopped changing the clocks altogether?..

Science writer Grace Browne offered to do a piece of gonzo journalism where she continued to live as if the clocks hadnt changedturning up an hour late to everything, trying to get other people onside..

Changing the clocks twice a year is bad for peoples health, for the economy, and maybe even for the climate, and there have been serious efforts to stop doing it in both the US and Europe for years, only for these to continually stall..

Darkness kills, said Steve Calandrillo, a University of Washington School of Law professor who studies the economics of daylight saving time, when he spoke to my colleague Amanda Hoover in March, the last time the clocks changed...

Most of the world does fine without the need to bend time to their will two times a yeardaylight saving time is a curiously Western phenomenon, largely practiced in Europe and North America (as well as parts of the Middle East, some Australian states, New Zealand, Chile, and Paraguay)..

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