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...While DST tours outside of both the region and the nation, the band continues to play a mix of local clubs like the Middle East and local basements, though they say they have more fun at the basement shows, where the tight-knit DIY community is really felt...
...doesn’t have to be that way. The spring/summer’s Daylight Saving Time (DST) should be year-round...
Quite simply, Standard Time has no reasonable justification. Since Sunday’s clock rollback, there are four-and-a-half hours of sunlight after noon, and five-and-a-half before. DST reverses this. Having more sunlight in the afternoon gives us more waking hours to exercise, makes people happier, and has been shown to cut electricity usage and even lower traffic fatalities. Even the economy is better, as retailers sell more when there is more afternoon sunlight...
...while 20-year-olds might relish the extra hour of afternoon daylight afforded to us by the switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) every summer (i.e. , the opposite switch to the one we made on Sunday), adopting DST all year round (and abandoning the fall/winter Standard Time entirely) would be a mistake...
...William Willet proposed in his pamphlet, “The Waste of Daylight,” that DST is beneficial because it “adds” more daylight in the evening hours, when people are better able to take advantage of the sun’s rays. “Under the most favorable circumstances, there then remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal,” Willet wrote. “If some of the hours of wasted sunlight could be withdrawn from...