Lawmakers approve year-round Daylight Saving Time. But it's not a done deal yet.

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1. Without getting into a debate about the rationality or reasonableness of this,

the big problem is going to be out of step.

I do get heartily sick of the yearly debate about Daylight Saving Time. If I were dictator of North America, I'd keep DST but it would start no earlier than mid-April and end at the end of September. The current system starts too early and ends too late. The rationale for extending it to the first Sunday in November had to do with Halloween and little kids trick-or-treating. I'm 69 years old, and trust me, even if you set the clocks forward three hours for Halloween, there will still be kids out after dark. The kids out after dark are not only no big deal but giant fun. I happen to live where I get LOTS of trick-or-treaters and still haven't quite mastered how much candy I need to buy.

Oh, and as I child, more than 60 years ago, when DST ended well before Halloween, the joy of that night was being out late, after dark. And all the candy.