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Stop changing clocks twice a year

Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, when clocks are set back one hour.
Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, when clocks are set back one hour. Associated Press

With all the things with which people have to contend, it is still required that they to go through the national ritual of turning back and forth time, as if still living in the days of the horse and buggy.

Though today, farmers, business concerns and people in general now use solar power; not candles for illumination, the outdated ritual tradition and the complaint that there are too many laws on the books still goes on.

Charlie Moore, Orange Cove

This story was originally published November 6, 2017 at 10:28 AM with the headline "Stop changing clocks twice a year."

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