Tonight’s the night, or why DST stinks
By Glenny Brock
You may not realize that tonight’s the night you’re supposed to set your clocks back. According to Weekly columnist Courtney Haden, it’s due to somebody’s “endless piddling with Benjamin Franklin’s simple idea for ‘diminishing the Cost of Light,’ that we have no idea anymore when we’re supposed to spring and fall or in which direction.
“A Republican Congress managed to sneak this one in as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, mandating us to save daylight from the second Sunday in March till the first Sunday in November, which is this weekend, in case you too had lost track…”
Read the rest of Courtney’s column at Birmingham Weekly Online.
