{"id":7256,"date":"2016-03-13T15:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:17:44","slug":"did-daylight-savings-time-mess-up-your-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/13\/did-daylight-savings-time-mess-up-your-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Daylight Savings Time Mess Up Your Morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did Daylight Savings Time mess up your morning?<br \/>\nIt messed up mine.<\/p>\n<p>Do you live in California?<br \/>\nContact your California assemblyman and state senator to abolish daylight savings time.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov\/\">State Assembly page here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Type in your address to find your representatives.<\/li>\n<li>Write a short letter to your assemblyman and senator&#8230; It could be as short as &#8220;Please support AB2496 and abolish daylight savings time. Thank you!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Done<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article62292437.html\">Article about a bill to abolish DST<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here was my letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please support Assembly Bill 2496 and end Daylight Savings Time in California. It helps no one, saves nothing, and it causes a considerable bother to every person in the state for several days twice a year. It especially bothers my sleep patterns and those of my baby for about a week!<\/p>\n<p>The most popular reasoning for keeping DST is &#8220;to save energy&#8221;. Here is a study by the University of California&#8217;s Center for the Study of Energy Markets offering evidence that daylight savings time does not save energy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucei.berkeley.edu\/PDF\/csemwp163.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ucei.berkeley.edu\/PDF\/csemwp163.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nThank you,<br \/>\nLee Sonko<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Daylight Savings Time mess up your morning? It messed up mine. Do you live in California? Contact your California assemblyman and state senator to abolish daylight savings time. Go to the State Assembly page here Type in your address to find your representatives. Write a short letter to your assemblyman and senator&#8230; It could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}