Let’s agree to stop messing with the clocks

Thank you so much to Janis Hoover for her well-written letter regarding time change. (Thursday, “Try initiative to ban time change.”)

Many elderly people keep two clocks in their homes, set an hour apart, so they can figure out what time to take their life-saving medications.

It’s way past time to do away with the inconvenience caused by changing the clocks.

Joan Newell

Everett

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