March 9, 2025
Easy to ignore, facts about time can reveal how we allocate activities, how countries coordinate, and our tradeoffs.
Easy to ignore, facts about time can reveal how we allocate activities, how countries coordinate, and our tradeoffs.
Whereas many of us ask whether we should switch between daylight saving time and standard time, the question is not quite so simple.
Decisions that relate to standardizing clock time and solar time, and global time zones create commercial negative and positive externalities.
We should cancel daylight saving time because studies show that the opportunity cost of energy use has changed since Ben Franklin suggested "early to rise."