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How Will Utah "Seize The Daylight" On Wednesday's Access Utah

siezethedaylight.com

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and the United States fought an energy crisis with it.

The goal of daylight saving time—to use daylight to its maximum advantage—is  recognized by many to beneficial. But this deceptively simple idea has been controversial. Proponents have proclaimed DST's benefits, including saving energy, reducing automobile accidents, providing more daylight for outdoor activities, cutting crime, and many others. But DST also has had many detractors—from farmers to parents of schoolchildren—who have waged battles against it.
In addition to energy, accidents, and crime, daylight saving time affects a wide variety of other, often unexpected areas, from Mid-East terrorism to attendance at London music halls, voter turnout to gardening, street crime to the profits of radio stations.
Now two legislators are proposing that Utah either drop DST or put the question to voters.  
 

On Wednesday’s AU we’ll talk to David Prerau, a leading expert on DST and author of “Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time.” Our guests will also include Rep. Lee Perry R-Perry and Sen. Aaron Osmond R-South Jordan, and Steve Goodwin, who works in the tourism industry in the Moab area.

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.