Fall Back

Surely you remembered to set your clocks back one hour as part of the spring-forward/fall-back ritual. And you may dimly recall a ballot initiative in California that seemed to say we would stay on daylight time in contrast to what actually occurred. You might wonder why the initiative seems to have had no effect on actual practice.

In addition, you may have been reading the articles that appear whenever the clocks change about why it's upsetting.*

So, we again provide you with more information from a 2022 lecture by yours truly about time and time changes than you ever wanted to know: (And since it was winter 2022, the lecture was delivered complete with a required COVID mask.)

https://archive.org/details/mitchell-time-edited

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*https://www.wtvr.com/news/national-news/daylight-saving-time-how-americans-feel-about-changing-clocks-oct-30-2025; https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/daylight-saving-time-sleep-21123220.php.