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Daylight Saving Time—Fall Back 2022 Meme Collection
I wish I could say that my erudite writing and trenchant observations were what brings most people to this site. In reality, it is the goofy jokes, pointed cartoons, snarky…
New Idea For 2022 to Fix Daylight Saving Time
The narrative surrounding the issue of fixing Daylight Saving Time has evolved from being a niche topic, to being a legitimate concern for state and national legislators. That’s great. As…
Welcome to the DST fight to #LockTheClock, fall 2022
After a few days of this blog being down (grrrrrrr) it seems to have been fixed, so welcome! I will use this post just to collect some of the best…
Answer to the question: “Is this the last year we will Fall Back for Daylight Saving Time?”
I have a search set up so that once a day, I get an email with all the stories that mention “Daylight Saving Time” and the last couple of weeks…
Time to get back to not going back in time
I know that headline doesn’t make a ton of sense. In short, it’s my way of saying that it is time for me to get back to work on this…
Colorado, at long last, moves to fix Daylight Saving Time
Spoiler alert? In the excellent movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, there is a great scene that is unlike the rest of the movie, where the noise/music/dialogue/action all stop and…
Trust the scientists? It’s hard when they are so unscientific regarding Daylight Saving Time on Twitter
When I was a candidate to be U.S. Representative, I personally talked to about two thousand people about fixing Daylight Saving Time. The response was overwhelming: People absolutely want to…
History and Geography of fixing DST, especially in Tennessee
(During my short-lived campaign to be a U.S. Representative, I got such great response from voters I talked to about my plan to #LockTheClock. I also got a bunch of…
What To Do Now To Fix Daylight Saving Time Forever
I am now a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, which is a thing I just never imagined saying before and I am still getting used to it. The…
Statement on Daylight Saving Time for the House Energy & Commerce Committee
Here is the statement I provided at the request of the staff from the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce: Thank you for this opportunity to…
High Fives for fixing Daylight Saving Time
Just a quick post to highlight a great story done in the Wall St. Journal. The story is similar to many of the others done this time of year, but…
Tipping Point to fix Daylight Saving Time for good?
It is a big week for those who want to #LockTheClock. It is the week before the change, so we all haven’t been robbed of an hour of sleep and…
Daylight Saving Time and Ukraine
Right off the top, let me say that this is not the most important thing about Putin’s war on Ukraine. I totally understand that. The war is horrifying. I write…
Lock The Clock is going to a whole new level
Close readers of this blog may have been wondering why it has been so quiet of late. Truth is, I’ve just been a bit busy. This has always just been…
New Idea For 2022 to Fix Daylight Saving Time
The narrative surrounding the issue of fixing Daylight Saving Time has evolved from being a niche topic, to being a legitimate concern for state and national legislators. That’s great. As…
The Truth About the Politico Story
One of the all-time great journalism movies is Absence of Malice. The movie is about a reporter played by Sally Field, and a guy who gets falsely accused of being…
Funny “fall back” DST memes for 2021
During most of the year, most of my blog traffic here goes to the home page, the DST legislation page and the research page. But right around the time changes,…
Behind the Scenes with Jon Lovett and our Shared Quest to Fix Daylight Saving Time
I was a reporter for years before I became a startup founder, and so I always try to be as accommodating as I can when reporters contact me, especially if…
Summertime is done, DST is next. When will clock-changing end?
Greetings to my surprisingly large number of readers from Europe! In whatever language you use, you generally refer to the period where the clocks are an hour later as summertime instead…
ThisClose to Progress on DST in Canada
Well, we’ve now had the first state- or province-wide vote on the issue of Daylight Saving Time, and unfortunately the result did not go the way I had hoped as…
Daylight Saving Time podcast from CNN with Jon Lovett
Just a quick post with a really thoughtful and fun podcast from CNN. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> If that embedded player doesn’t work, you can find it here. Overall I thought…
Daylight Saving Time As Distraction, the Global Edition
I’ve written before about how I think that politicians have used Daylight Saving Time as a distraction from some other topic. Probably the clearest example was when Nixon ordered a…
DST: The one issue that can fix them all
The classic movie Bridge Over the River Kwai is now more than 60 years old, so if you haven’t seen it, well, too bad, I’m going to ruin the ending…
Voting Guide: Daylight Saving Time in Alberta
Alberta is not the most famous of the Canadian provinces. It’s probably best known as the home of Calgary, and the 1988 Winter Olympics, which became even more famous because…
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Hey, Nate Glubish, You Can Fix The Clock for the Whole World
Dear Nate, I hope you don't mind me calling you that. I know you are a duly elected member of Alberta Legislative Assembly, but you are also Canadian, so my…
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End the Clock Changing
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Ohio and Daylight Saving Time—Will They Pass The Buckeye?
Close readers of this blog my note that I have not written in a while. Sorry about that. Just busy with my day job and personal life. I’m being prompted…
Daylight Saving Time Risks and Rewards
Recently the United States went through a tricky couple of weeks where use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for Covid-19 was suspended, and then reinstated. The problem? Out of…
Is Change Coming to European Summertime in 2021?
Of all the oddities of Daylight Saving Time, one of the oddest is that the United States shifts the clocks the second Sunday of March, and much of Europe does…
New Daylight Saving Time Polling Shows Change is Coming
Sometimes on this blog I back into the news at a leisurely pace. For this one, well... here’s the story I would have written back when I was a reporter:Supermajority…