Saturday, March 11, 2017

Daylight savings time ... for the last time?

It's that time of the year again, when we lose an hour on Sunday night:


And the effects continue the next day, when the accident rate is significantly higher than normal:


And why? Supposedly to save energy, but the research is at best mixed on this issue. But the golf and barbecue industries make more money!


But there's a movement afoot to stop changing the time back and forth. For Colorado it's to stick with DST year-round and for others like Oregon they're looking to stick with PST year around!

For one more year, though: be careful out there ... and/or just turn off your alarm clock and sleep in!

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