November 2nd, 2013 @ 4:56 am PDT

On Daylight Saving Time

I’ve always thought that DST sounded fishy. Read this great article for all the gory details.

Daylight Saving Time is the greatest continuing fraud ever perpetuated on American people. And this weekend, the effects of this cruel monster will rear its ugly head again. On Sunday morning, Americans across the country will have to set their clocks back one hour, and next week, the sun will begin its ambling lurch to eventually setting at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Alexander Abad-Santos, The Atlantic Wire

via @megnut

2024-11-20: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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