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Standardized time and protecting the integrity of our Republic (and ultimately the purity of our precious bodily fluids).

UPDATE from davenoon:

Yglesias’ parable bears more than a slight resemblance to actual debates about Daylight Savings Time, which was initially part of the Standard Time Act. After Gore Vidal’s grandfather introduced a bill to repeal that part of the act in early 1919, a variety of religious groups joined the utility and energy interests chimed in, urging a return to early evening darkness. One group explained noted with “certainty that this iniquitous law will give deep displeasure to God” — a God who evidently had nothing in particular against standardized time zones but who might be inclined to unleash a plague of locusts if children had an extra hour’s time to play baseball during the summer. God had created the Sun so that everyone would know when it was noontime. For the government to declare otherwise would be “complete blasphemy.”

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