by Peggy Robin
Here's your reminder: Before you go to bed tonight, remember to set your clocks ahead one hour for the switch to (audible groan) Daylight Saving Time.
I've been campaigning against DST for many years, and have used my Still Life with Robin column to grumble about it five times, usually in the column that comes out on the day before it starts. (See Still Life with Robin, March 2024, 2023, 2019, 2018, and 2014 Plus two column by Listserv co-founder Bill Adler: 2011 and 2010.)
In a few of those past columns I held out some hope that Congress would finally put an end to all this clock-a-mamie foolishness.
Shortly before Trump began his second term in office, he pledged to end these twice-yearly time resets, calling DST "inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
If anything could make me change my mind on this issue, it's being on the same side of a public policy question as President Trump.
But then just two days ago, he flip-flopped and has now backed away from it. (See: Trump blinks on ending daylight saving time. The president had vowed to eliminate the century-old practice of “springing forward” and “falling back” but is now acknowledging the complicated politics." --Washington Post
Now that Trump has backed away from ending DST by executive fiat, I thought it might be a good time to reevaluate this issue, strictly on the merits. And what better way to do that than to hear the pros and cons debated by experts who have studied DST and its effects?
So, for everyone still on the fence about this -- or for anyone who's chosen a side but is still willing to listen to the best arguments for the other side with an open mind -- I present this NPR-backed podcast, an episode in John Donvan's "Open to Debate" series):
No matter what side you're on now, you still need to reset any analog clocks and watches that you own -- or finally get rid of them and use internet-linked time-keeping devices that make the swtich for you at exactly 2 o'clock on Sunday morning.
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Still Life with Robin is published on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Satrudays.
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