{"id":138230,"date":"2019-03-11T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138230"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:33:12","slug":"even-a-broken-clock-that-doesnt-change-for-dst-is-sometimes-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/even-a-broken-clock-that-doesnt-change-for-dst-is-sometimes-correct.html","title":{"rendered":"Even a broken clock (that doesn&#8217;t change for DST) is sometimes correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, Donald. I hate feeling obliged to &#8220;like&#8221; one of your tweets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138231\" title=\"daylight saving trump\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump.png 630w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is what you should put all your moral and political capital behind, rather than slashing the social safety net, ballooning defense spending, cutting taxes for the rich, or trying to set the world on fire. You&#8217;d be certain of leaving office with at least one unalloyed victory that you&#8217;d be loved for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dammit, Donald. I hate feeling obliged to &#8220;like&#8221; one of your tweets. Maybe this is what you should put all your moral and political capital behind, rather than slashing the social safety net, ballooning defense spending, cutting taxes for the rich, or trying to set the world on fire. You&#8217;d be certain of leaving office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/11\/even-a-broken-clock-that-doesnt-change-for-dst-is-sometimes-correct.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Even a broken clock (that doesn&#8217;t change for DST) is sometimes correct&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1071],"tags":[1728,1727],"class_list":["post-138230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump","tag-daylight-saving-time","tag-dst"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/daylight-saving-trump.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/daylight_saving_update.html","url_meta":{"origin":138230,"position":0},"title":"Daylight Saving update","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Mar-07 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, despite (or perhaps because of, who knows) all the patching and fixing to make sure that the new DST start time won't frell up everyone's computer appointments -- I...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10253,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/07\/living_daylights.html","url_meta":{"origin":138230,"position":1},"title":"Living Daylights","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Mar-07 7:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"As previously predicted, everyone's in a frenzy this week (in the IT world, primarily, but expect many Y2Kesque DOOOOM headlines in the normal press in the next few days) over...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/21\/standard_time.html","url_meta":{"origin":138230,"position":2},"title":"Standard Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Nov-08 7:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If Barack Obama accomplishes nothing else in his presidency but this, he will be a hero for generations to come.\u00a0 President-elect Obama wants to get rid of daylight saving time...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Environment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Environment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science\/environment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27071,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/tweets-from-2012-03-12.html","url_meta":{"origin":138230,"position":3},"title":"Tweets from 2012-03-12","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Mar-12 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, one DST risk I don't have to worry about is unexpected sun glare during my commute in to the office. # A lot of sleepy-looking people on the train this morning. # Slept funny myself last night. 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