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Opinion

Give Me the Extra Hour Every Week

A fictional columnist's modest proposal.

Sleeping, aspirationally.

Sleeping, aspirationally. Photo: anagoria, “20260210 Radiowecker Kuba Sweet-clock R27 (1970) Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin anagoria”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Why stop at once a year? I propose clocks go back every Saturday, and forward again on a Monday nobody likes anyway. Economists have not called me back.

The real story: Satire.

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