{"id":49787,"date":"2015-03-09T09:18:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/daylight-saving-time-how-is-this-still-a-thing.html"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:40:38","slug":"daylight-saving-time-how-is-this-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/daylight-saving-time-how-is-this-still-a-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Saving Time: How Is This Still a Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#39;m just in my self-serving DST-hating echo chamber of friends and associates and co-workers and media &#8230; but does anyone actually <i>like<\/i> changing the clocks twice a year?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, yeah, if we went off of changing the clocks (whichever way we do it), people would find something to bitch about <i>that,<\/i> too, but really &#8230; is that any worse than the current goofiness?<\/p>\n<p>Hell, let&#39;s be like India and split the difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/br0NW9ufUUw' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6pGgJ7G3Kb7'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#39;m just in my self-serving DST-hating echo chamber of friends and associates and co-workers and media &#8230; but does anyone actually like changing the clocks twice a year? I mean, yeah, if we went off of changing the clocks (whichever way we do it), people would find something to bitch about that, too, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/daylight-saving-time-how-is-this-still-a-thing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daylight Saving Time: How Is This Still a Thing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137133,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/11\/the-eu-may-get-rid-of-changing-clocks-twice-a-year.html","url_meta":{"origin":49787,"position":0},"title":"The EU may get rid of changing clocks twice a year","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-18 9:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Crap. 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