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5 ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time

  • Written by Steve Calandrillo, Jeffrey & Susan Brotman Professor of Law, University of Washington
It's almost time to 'spring forward.'Pair Srinrat/shutterstock.com

In my research on daylight saving time, I have found that Americans don’t like it when Congress messes with their clocks.

In an effort to avoid the biannual clock switch in spring and fall, some well-intended critics of DST have made the mistake of suggesting that the...

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