{"id":39502,"date":"2013-11-02T23:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/time-zones-and-daylight.html"},"modified":"2013-11-04T07:07:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T14:07:58","slug":"time-zones-and-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/02\/time-zones-and-daylight.html","title":{"rendered":"Time, Zones, and Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have no problem whatsoever with eliminating Daylight Saving Time. \u00a0And I'd accept consolidating into two time zones. \u00a0Honestly, I'm much less sensitive to what daylight there is in the morning or the evening, as much as I am to flipping clocks back and forth twice a year or dealing with everyone thinking my Colorado lunch hour is the perfect time to schedule meetings that are convenient to both California and Texas.<\/div>\n

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America should have two\u00a0time-zones<\/a>
\n Allison Schrager proposes that America should end Daylight Savings and consolidate its timezones into just two — the Eastern zone goes back, Central\/Mountain do nothing, and Pacific goes forward.\n <\/p>\n


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I have no problem whatsoever with eliminating Daylight Saving Time. \u00a0And I'd accept consolidating into two time zones. \u00a0Honestly, I'm much less sensitive to what daylight there is in the morning or the evening, as much as I am to flipping clocks back and forth twice a year or dealing with everyone thinking my Colorado … Continue reading “Time, Zones, and Daylight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[106,68,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/03\/daylight-saving-time.html","url_meta":{"origin":39502,"position":0},"title":"Daylight Saving Time","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Mar-09 10:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"I always thought (in college) it was dreadfully unfair that we lost an hour in the middle of the second half of the academic year, just when you most need it. 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