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The Senate might just finally do away with Daylight Saving Time (DST) clock shifts, ridding America of the twice-a-year impositions on everyone’s sanity and standardizing time at the moment after the clock jumps forward on March 14 this year. Of course, similar proposals have regularly flamed out over the years, so take that with a grain of salt.
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The annual transitions between DST and Standard Time manage to be both simple and a headache-inducing confusion. At 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, clocks roll forward an hour, and at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday in November, clocks roll back an hour. That means from March to November, Americans get an extra hour of sunlight or so during the evening, and from November to March, Americans get an extra hour or so of sunlight in the early hours of the morning. ....

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