The Daylight Saving Debate
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🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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And there's a bill in Congress to make it permanent, which would mean never changing our clocks again.
Nineteen states have already made it clear that they'd make the switch if Congress says okay.
How did this biannual ritual come about anyway? And what are our other options?
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| 0:00.0 | I hate daylight savings time. It messes me up. It messes up my sleep patterns every spring, |
| 0:15.1 | every fall. I don't understand why we're still doing it. It makes absolutely no sense. |
| 0:21.5 | This is Sharon from Northern Virginia. We're already in daylight savings time seven months out of the |
| 0:28.0 | year. We ought to just stay in daylight savings time. This is Grantee Names Iowa. Medical |
| 0:33.4 | professionals emphasize how important it is to establish sleep routines. Daylight saving time |
| 0:39.2 | disrupts that unnecessarily. We should change clocks zero times each year. Let's get a movement and |
| 0:45.8 | get this stopped and give us consistent time throughout the year. This weekend marked the |
| 0:51.6 | beginning of daylight saving time for this year anyway. But there's a bill in Congress to make it |
| 0:56.5 | permanent. That would mean never changing our clocks again. 19 states have already made it clear |
| 1:02.4 | that they'd make the switch if Congress says okay. After the break, we'll discuss how this |
| 1:06.8 | bi-annual ritual came about and whether we have any other options. I'm Jen White. You're listening |
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| 1:31.5 | Therapist Tessu Jo knows that lockdown has been hard on us as humans. We as people are hardwired |
| 1:37.0 | to connect with others, which is why this whole time is so difficult. The connection that happens |
| 1:42.3 | with the world is a very important thing. We as people are hardwired to connect with others, |
| 1:50.3 | which is why this whole time is so difficult. The connection that happens is that we have |
| 1:58.2 | a lot of people who are not really in the mood to get to the heart of the story. We have |
| 2:02.8 | a lot of people who are not in the mood to get to the heart of the story. We have a lot of |
| 2:07.3 | people who are not really in the mood to get to the heart of the пом. We have a lot of |
| 2:18.4 | people are struggling to prepare for their break-and-wait untilνa vesengl risque risk |
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