Here's one of those inexplicable goofy notions: Switching from Daylight Savings Time to Standard time. Now the sun will set at 5:30 p.m. on its way to setting around 4:30 p.m. in late December. People will get up when it's dark and drive home from work in the dark rather than enjoying an extra hour of light in the evening. Daylight Savings Time is more sensible; you get up, shower and breakfast and go to work or school, mostly unable to enjoy the sunshine. Your life really starts when you go home and play with the kids, change the car's oil, mow the lawn, play some sports, even shovel snow, all in daylight you can really use.

Daylight Savings Time is just as safe, too. Many years ago a young Minnesota girl waiting for the school bus on a country route was killed by a driver cresting the h

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