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This hilarious video captures just how terrible daylight saving time really is

If you’re like me, then you are dragging at work today, due to daylight saving time, which on Sunday robbed America of an hour of its weekend. You may be looking for some internet content to validate your hatred of the wretched annual practice that has made your Monday even Monday-ier. This is that content.

Daylight saving time is a monstrosity that must be destroyed. To understand why, you can read this fascinating, in-depth article by Joseph Stromberg explaining where this practice came from and why it must end.

You can also watch this 2014 video by the YouTube sketch group Nacho Punch, which dramatizes daylight saving time in the form of a horror movie trailer. It’s perfect:

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