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Why do I hate thee, DST? How about I tell you

  • What was good for 1918 isn’t necessarily so great 90 years later.
  • Contrary to common wisdom, some studies show it causes an increase in energy consumption (especially for us poor folk down south) – partly because of a little thing called air conditioning.
  • How often does common wisdom lead us astray?
  • Shifting high noon to lower noon is just asking for trouble.
  • We have nothing to fear but time itself.
  • My microwave shows the wrong time half the year.
  • You ever try riding your bike to work in the black of night?
  • Do we really need another hour to play frisbee?
  • Do you know how freaking hot it is here when the sun is up? My time feels more leasurely in the relative cool of dusk.
  • As someone who rarely, if ever, strays from the good ‘ole EST zone, that hour really fracks me up.
  • EDST doesn’t have the same ring to it.
  • Loosing sleep, even if it’s once a year, and made up later, is a crime against humanity.
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