America should ‘fall back’ for the last time

Some people objected to tampering with “God’s time.” But a religious perspective isn’t necessary to see that daylight saving time is out of step with the natural rhythm of life. For ages, civilization divided the day at the time the sun was highest, and called it high noon. Standard time is natural time. Eons earlier, the biological clocks of humans and other living things had set themselves to the same quotidian rhythm, beyond the power of any Congress or Legislature to change. Farmers can’t instruct the roosters when to crow or tell cows when they need to be milked. There’s no persuading a t...