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Opinion

Put the Clocks Back, But Leave My Emotional Schedule Alone

An extra hour won't fix Broxden, but I'll take it.

A clock face, negotiating.

A clock face, negotiating. Photo: Santeri Viinamäki, “Classic alarm clock 20180513”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sunday we get an hour back. I will use it to sit in a queue I was going to sit in anyway. National politicians will claim credit. Local temporary lights will ignore the whole thing.

Put the clocks back. Leave my blood pressure where it is.

The real story: Opinion on clocks change

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