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fromFortune
15 hours agoThis coming week is the one time of the year when the U.S. and Europe are out of sync. Here's why | Fortune
Different daylight-saving transition dates in Europe and North America create a one-week transatlantic time mismatch each autumn, disrupting international scheduling and meetings.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
6 days agoDaylight saving time is this Sunday; City ramps up traffic enforcement as darkness falls earlier
The fall clock change brings earlier darkness and creates peak pedestrian danger during evening rush hours, so drivers must slow down, turn carefully, and remain vigilant.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 days agoDaylight saving time is ending soon: Here's what to know for 2025
The current March to November system that the US follows began in 2007, but the concept of "saving daylight" is much older. Daylight saving time has its roots in train schedules, but it was put into practice in Europe and the United States to save fuel and power during World War I, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
US politics
fromThe Conversation
6 days agoAn Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for Daylight Saving Time runs counter to human nature - and nature itself
But as an Indigenous person who studies environmental humanities, this sort of effort, and the debate about it, misses a key ecological perspective. Biologically speaking, it is normal, and even critical, for nature to do more during the brighter months and to do less during the darker ones. Animals go into hibernation, plants into dormancy. Humans are intimately interconnected with, interdependent on, and interrelated to nonhuman beings, rhythms and environments.
Philosophy
fromwww.dw.com
1 week agoSpain revives EU daylight savings debate DW 10/24/2025
On Sunday, October 26, clocks will again "fall back" one hour, ending Central European Summer Time (CEST), after having "sprung forward" an hour in March. What is daylight savings time (DST) and why is it used? Around 35% of countries currently adhere to the daylight savings time system, which was first instituted on a national level in 1916 in the German and the Austro-Hungarian Empires. DST saw broad international implementation in the 1970s as a means of saving energy after the oil crisis.
Miscellaneous
fromSocial Media Explorer
4 months agoThe Deadly Cost of Daylight Saving Time: Why Texans Should Rethink the Clock Change - Social Media Explorer
The spring transition appears to be a perfect storm of fatigue, impaired alertness, and risky driving conditions, with a 6% spike in fatal crashes.
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Washington DC
fromWashingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
4 months agoMeet the Man Who Wants to Stop DC From Changing Clocks Each Spring and Fall - Washingtonian
Daniel Bernier proposes a referendum in DC to stop daylight saving time, advocating for permanent standard time.
Bernier aims to improve local autonomy and reduce the inconvenience of time changes.
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