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Two weeks ago I wrote that permanent daylight saving time is a vote about January. The argument went like this. The US already spends about 34 weeks a year on daylight time, so the Sunshine Protection Act would only change the roughly 18 weeks from November to mid-March. That makes it a decision …
Tomorrow most of Europe sets its clocks back an hour. The United States does the same a week later, on November 1. As usual, a lot of people will say we should stop changing the clocks and keep summer time all year. This year that view has more weight behind it than usual. The House passed H.R. 139, …
The United States has stopped making pennies. The last circulating one was struck on November 12, 2025. This summer the Common Cents Act, which ends penny production by law and sets a rule for rounding cash totals to the nearest five cents, passed the Senate unanimously. The House passed its version …