We’ve all been focused on a slightly big and important event that will happen in four weeks — the general election, of course, which takes place on November 5th — early and mail-in votes notwithstanding, that’s the day that (we can hope) this will all be decided.
But a few days earlier, on November 3rd, another somewhat less critical but far more useless event takes place: On that night, it will be time to “fall back” and set our clocks back to Standard Time, unless of course, you live in Arizona (outside the Navajo nation) or Hawaii. And, yes, it’s still a dumb idea, with little to recommend it, and it’s well past time to do away with it — but for now, it’s still the spring-ahead, fall-back reality. But that may be changing.
State and federal lawmakers have tried to put a permanent end to daylight saving time but with little progress (except for the times that we did,…
