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" We tried to prepare you. You needed to cut an hour from your weekend. You didn&amp;#039;t. (Neither did we.) And now everyone outside of Arizona and Hawaii is cursing beneath their breaths, including in the morning paper and blog posts about how we need to change this god-forsaken anachronistic routine. And this time, there&amp;#039;s proof. The kernel of which is a study from Sleepbetter.org that announces the America loses almost $434 million a year because of the time switch. It&amp;#039;s built off of peer-reviewed studies that show that on the day after Daylight Saving Time begins there are increases in mining accidents and heart attacks (because of rejigged circadian rhythms). The multi-million hit to the economy comes from lost days of labor as the injured recover. In short: sweet vindication. But let&amp;#039;s be honest here. The study was commissioned by Carpentar Co., a cushion and mattress manufacturer. It doesn&amp;#039;t account for the benefits of &amp;quot;falling back&amp;quot; (there&amp;#039;s a decrease in heart attacks). And $434 million is about one thirty-six-million-one-hundred-and-thirty-second-thousand-four-hundred-and-eighty-eighth of last year&amp;#039;s economy. The study is bunk. We&amp;#039;re not saying we love Daylight Saving Time. Not at all. The national sleep deprivation epidemic? A problem. Waking up another hour earlier than the sun? Sucks. Doing it three weeks earlier than usual, before spring? Bullsht. But if we&amp;#039;re going to curse and complain, we&amp;#039;re going to do so either intelligently or completely ignorantly. Not somewhere in between. And so today, we&amp;#039;re complaining on behalf of Kerry Wuzzey. He&amp;#039;s a 65-year-old Alabama clock collector with so many timepieces that it takes him a couple days to go through and reset them all. Now that&amp;#039;s a man for whom Daylight Saving Time is a true pain. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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