We do not have cable television anymore. We watch shows via the internet. We rewatched the entire Psych series last fall and discovered episodes we had never seen before. That should not have come as a surprise. Like all children with a television in their home during the second half of the twentieth century, our childhood revolved around when our favorite shows played. Saturday morning cartoon, holiday parades—would we be allowed to stay up and watch Have Gun, Will Travel? It felt at the time like the major problem with bedtimes was missing something on the television, and that would not happen once were grown. 

But it did. We both had to work mornings during the original airing of Psych. Sometimes we looked at one another, knew we were tired. and went to bed before it started. Sometimes we tried to stay awake and woke to the closing credits. The clock was still not on our side.

“At some point in elementary school, many American children learn that Daylight Saving Time was originally intended to give farmers an extra hour of light to work the fields.

“That is, in fact, a lie.

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