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Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Released Sunday, 10th March 2019
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Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Goodbye Daylight Saving Time?: Europe eyes scrapping state-mandated jet lag

Sunday, 10th March 2019
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Spring forward, fall back– as sure as the changing of the seasons, twice a year our clocks must be reset by an hour. But now Europe may have had enough. The EU set out legislation to scrap Daylight Saving Time after its citizens voted against the biannual switch in a public poll, but the idea has hit a stumbling block. Why is one hour causing such a fuss? And how did we get Daylight Saving Time in the first place? Clare and Rebecca talk to the Washington Post’s foreign affairs reporter in Europe, Rick Noack, to find out.

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