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We do know, on the other hand, that switching between time cycles is not only a twice-a-year annoyance but also brings an array of negative health and welfare effects, including increased rates of heart attacks, work injuries and traffic accidents when clocks move forward, and possibly increased rates of depression when the long months of darkness set in. [...]

Oddly enough, though, most politicians are largely unaware of efforts to do something about this. Hillary Clinton herself was recently asked about it, and said that she had never confronted the issue before in the last two decades. Gratefully, though, she said she would be willing to look into it:

"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."

Whatever her faults, one of Clinton's biggest strengths is her wonkish obsession over policy details. Keeping DST year-round is one of those issues that she will hopefully take a long, hard look at. It may be difficult for her to get much done with a Republican Congress, but this is one non-partisan area where there might be some hope for a reasonable compromise that improves everyone's lives.

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