Daylight Savings Archives

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MACDONALD: Like Clockwork!

November 2, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Like clockwork, it is once again time to talk about Daylight Saving Time. And why the heck not? You just moved the clocks back an hour to Eastern Standard Time—the time it’s supposed to be. And maybe you managed to milk that extra hour for something or not. I wake up an hour earlier and … Read more

Trump Says It’s Time to End Daylight Savings

December 15, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Moving the clocks ahead an hour or back an hour is one of those cultural things that gets a fair bit of attention. It screws some of us up, and our pets don’t when their dinner time is. Come to think of it, neither do we. Body clocks are scrambled a bit for many. People … Read more

Night Cap: Late Edition – Don’t Forget to Get Back that Hour of Sleep You Lost in March

November 4, 2023 Steve MacDonald

It is a tradition that we complain about the biannual celebration of altering time. Not time itself as in spacetime, but where the hands land on the clock and how that drives everything else about our lives.

CNN Tries to Blame White People But Democrats are to Blame

December 1, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The COVID News Network (CNN) has a breathless expose on an “until now” unrealized inequity. Researchers, always a suspicious term when applied by the MSM, report that ‘People of Color’ are more likely to experience “inequities seen in sleep health” than white folks.

Don’t Forget About F#∉!*^$! Daylight Savings Time (DST) This Weekend

March 12, 2022 Steve MacDonald

Blame the Germans. They invented Daylight Savings Time. Something to do with saving fuel and power. An idea the US adopted then abolished at the end of World War I.

Did You Move the Clocks Back?

November 4, 2023November 3, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Good morning. Welcome to Eastern Standard Time. Did you remember? To turn your clocks back an hour. There’s still time to do it. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

Could This Be The Congress That Ends Switching the Clocks Twice A Year?

March 11, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Would it surprise you to know that Daylight Savings Time was a plot concocted by the Kaiser in WWI? It was imported to the US in 1918 and has plagued us in various forms ever since. Until 1966 when Congress forced it on all but a few locals who said screw you.