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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 1 place · today 04:34 EDT

Daylight Saving Time Ritual Continues. But Are There Alternatives?

Would you move sunrise to 9 a.m. in Detroit? Or to 4:11 a.m. in Seattle...
Though both options have problems, "There's no law we can pass to move the sun to our will," argues the president of the nonprofit "Save Standard Time". The Associated Press explains why America remains stuck in that annual ritual making clocks "spring forward, fall backward..."

The U.S. has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized the time zones in 1883. So has a lot of the world. About 140 countries hav

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