Is it Time to End Daylight Savings Time?

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Education, Society & Culture, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Are you ready to change the clock on Sunday? Is springing forward or falling back still an idea worth practicing? Those ready to end Daylight Savings argue it is inconvenient and has negative health and productivity effects. Those who want to keep Daylight Savings argue the time change’s effects are temporary and helps improve our quality of life. Now we debate: Is It Time to End Daylight Savings Time? Arguing Yes: Joan Costa-i-Font, Health Economist at the London School of Economics Arguing No: Binyamin Applebaum, Member of the New York Times Editorial Board Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.3	This is open to debate. I'm John Don Van. Hi, everybody. Today's debate focuses on whether we should
0:35.7	get rid of or hold on to something that has been
0:38.5	part of our lives for all of our lives, unless you happen to live in Arizona or Hawaii.
0:43.6	Any guesses?
0:44.6	Well, let's play you some recent news coverage talking about the thing that we're going to talk
0:49.0	about.
0:50.0	President-elect Donald Trump said today Republicans will push to eliminate daylight saving time.
0:55.1	Ditch daylight saving time.
0:56.7	Daylight savings time is inconvenient and very costly.
0:59.4	So there you've heard it. This is going to be a debate about daylight savings time, that twice a year,
1:03.9	clock forward, clock backward move that the nation goes through.
1:07.8	This is the clock forward moment that's about to come up for all of us, except in those
1:11.3	two states that I mentioned, which long ago opted to stay standard time all the time. As you heard,
1:17.3	this system, which has been in place for decades now, is definitely in the sights of the president,
1:22.9	but he is not the only detractor. Daylight savings Time annoys a lot of people, and they want to
1:28.2	gone. At the same time, a lot of people love Daylight Savings Time, and they would hate to
1:32.3	see it go. What is the case for Daylight Savings Time, and what's the case against it?
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