The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won’t Go Away
11th March 2023
“Globally, the debate is fixed—there are more countries not changing the clocks,” says Ariadna Güell Sans, co-coordinator of the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, an organization focused on time-related policy. Research has shown how moving the clocks forward and back, even by just one hour, negatively affects the economy, road safety, and health. Still, the US, Europe, and a few other nations are finding it hard to break the habit. The issue, says Güell Sans, is whether we stay on standard time or daylight saving time forever.
One of the plainest of indicators that our political systems are dysfunctional is the fact that it is apparently impossible to change a situation that evidently everybody agrees needs to be changed.