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...fact, the biggest question we may have asked on those fall Saturday nights is whether or not the Puritans believed in Daylight Saving--that is, are the bars in this town open an extra hour...
...Uniform Time Act passed by some conservation-happy Representatives back in 1966 who were eager, as I am, to avoid debate on any issue of actual national importance. As such, I propose that Harvard University join Hawaii, Arizona and parts of eastern Indiana in resisting the despotism that is Daylight Saving by creating our own Harvard Time Zone...
Perhaps a more graphic example is Union City, Ind., which does not observe daylight saving, and neighboring Union City, Ohio, which does. These two communities, both strapped for cash, tried to merge their municipal services. But they could not--just because of the time difference. Not since the abolition of the light brown M&M has an issue so divided a nation...
...have hated daylight-saving time since the 153rd time it was explained to me. I hate the useless mnemonic device (Why can't you "spring back" or "fall ahead"?). I hate getting caught in that grating conversation that starts with "Does that mean I get an extra hour of sleep or have to wake up an hour early?" I hate unnecessarily complicating something as simple as the time. Daylight-saving time costs this country $100 billion a year in missed meetings and wasted labor reprogramming VCRs. That figure, for those wondering, was calculated by taking the number $100 billion...
What my campaign needed, I decided, was an enemy, someone to rally against. At first I heard that daylight saving was started by the barbecue lobby, trying to claim an extra hour of grilling time. But most people said it was the farmers. Being Jewish, I don't know any farmers, so I called Susan Peery, managing editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. She told me that farmers actually protested daylight saving because it messed with nature and interrupted their milking schedule. So now I like farmers. I'm trying to do some coalition building here...