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Old November 6th 16, 04:35 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Hillary soft on DST

"So he asked whether she’d consider getting rid of the “archaic” time
switch and make either DST or standard time permanent. “I’m serious
about that,” he added. “It makes it hard.”"

"Clinton, and the crowd, let out a chuckle."

"“I will certainly consider that,” she told him. “I honestly think you
may be the first person to do this in my 20 years of work who’s ever
asked me that. I will take a look. I mean, people have talked about it
with regard to energy savings and things like that — but getting
teenagers up in the morning is hard under any kind of clock. And so let
me take that back and think about it.”"

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/hillar...201151539.html

Teenagers? Who cares about teenagers? Hillary needs to know what WALL
STREET says. And there's an answer:

"In a recent study, JPMorgan Chase (JPM) compared how the switch from
Daylight Saving Time affected spending in Los Angeles and Phoenix
(Arizona is one of the two states that doesn’t observe DST). The
analysis found that consumer spending through debit cards drops 3.5%
when clocks fall back and gain an hour in November. The study also
found that recovering from that drop is slow; when the hour of evening
light is returned in March, spending rises just 0.9%. “Over two-thirds
of the decline is due to a reduction in the number of transactions,
which is consistent with the idea that daylight affects the decision to
go to the store,” the study says."

If Goldman Sachs concurs, I'm sure even The Great and Powerful President
TRUMP couldn't preserve DST.

Daylight Shifting Time IS a primary example of Governmental
Overreach. Perhaps, this election, I'll write in Glenn Hauser.