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Daylight Saving Time: Why Does It Exist? — NYT Headline

Dan LaMoore wheels a clock away from the test area as it is prepared to be shipped to a Tennessee school at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass., Thursday. Most Americans lost an hour of sleep over the weekend, but gained an hour of evening light for months ahead, as Daylight Saving Time returned. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
Dan LaMoore wheels a clock away from the test area as it is prepared to be shipped to a Tennessee school at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass., Thursday. Most Americans lost an hour of sleep over the weekend, but gained an hour of evening light for months ahead, as Daylight Saving Time returned. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Dan LaMoore wheels a clock away from the test area as it is prepared to be shipped to a Tennessee school at the Electric Time Company in Medfield, Mass., Thursday. Most Americans lost an hour of sleep over the weekend, but gained an hour of evening light for months ahead, as Daylight Saving Time returned. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

It’s so very human,
as the decades pass by,
to follow the custom
without knowing quite why.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue

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