If Texas Ended Daylight Saving Time, We’d Still Get Cranky Twice a Year

This past weekend was one that most of us were dreading. At two o’clock in the morning on Sunday, our clocks rolled back an hour, and the day suddenly got shorter. The natural progression of the seasons, in which the sun gradually sets earlier each night, was upended, and the early onset of sunset happened all at once—as early as 5:13 p.m. in some parts of the state. It’s a disorienting and confusing adjustment, and most Americans loathe it: According to a 2022 CBS–YouGov poll, nearly 80 percent of the country wants to stop changing the clocks each November and then again in March.Frustration over the time switch led the state’s agriculture commissioner, Sid Miller, to declare in a social media post that “Texas can…

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