Daylight Saving and the Politics of Time

Yes, that’s right, daylight saving is ending and darkness is coming.

Shifting the clocks messes with people’s circadian rhythms — making everyone groggy, cranky and sometimes dangerously off their game.

Despite its name, daylight saving has never saved anyone anything. But it has proven to be a fantastically effective driver of retail spending.

A 1974 switch to year-round DST proved unpopular, with Americans expressing “distaste” for the long, dark winter mornings.

An animated story of what science says about changing our clocks in the fall and spring.

Springing forward and falling back is disruptive, and maybe even deadly, but our current system of time-keeping still can’t be beat.

Between daylight saving and obligatory early starts, we live at the mercy of ‘official’ time – and many of us feel permanently out of sync.

A history of authoritarian time changes.

As much as we’d like to think of time as a constant to live our lives by, the way we record it is subjective.

A new bill proposes making daylight saving time permanent. But for one family, it already is.

What would happen if clock time no longer tracked the Sun?

The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.

Sunday is the time to move clocks back in the U.S. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. local time, which means setting your clock back an hour.

Our perception of time is changing constantly. Here’s why—and how to harness the power for good.