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100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures

  • Written by Michael Downing, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Tufts University
Unfortunately, there's not an unlimited amount of daylight that we can squeeze out of our clocks.igorstevanovic/Shutterstock.com

One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, lawmakers in Florida this week passed the “Sunshine Protection Act,” which will make daylight saving a year-round reality in the...

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