From K-QED.

Twice a year,

twice a year, most of us in the United States go through a sort of time warp.

In March, we go to bed on a Saturday night,

climbing under our covers for a relaxing slumber. But then the alarm goes off an hour early the next day.

Ugh. This time warp is daylight saving saving time, of course.

And it's one of the three science-related props Californians

are voting on this year.

I'm Olivia Alan Price. It's Bay Curious Prop Week. All week long, we're taking you inside what's behind some of the many propositions you'll be voting on this November.

Today, we'll explore questions of daylight saving time and animal confinement plus a water bond stay with us

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Daylight saving time is this practice that we have of switching our clocks twice a year.

To help us understand Proposition 7, I called it my friend from a few desks down.

I'm Daniel Venton.

I'm one of the editors on the science desk here at KQED.

Prop 7 could lead to the end of switching clocks in California.

But before we get into how the prop works, let's first understand how daylight saving time came

to be a thing in the first place.

It was an idea that has been kicked around for centuries.

Benjamin Franklin calculated that the French could save some, you know, number of pounds of candles every year by switching their clocks.

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