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Mar
19
2010

You can't save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.

The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the author of a whole book (!) on the subject.

What's germane here is that DST saves about as much energy as light, according to most studies. In fact, a 2008 study found DST "may actually waste energy"

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