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On 10 March 2019, the NPC Daily website published an article containing a quote ostensibly uttered by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in which she expressed her opposition to daylight saving time because it supposedly exacerbated the effects of climate change: This is not a genuine news article, nor is this a real quote from the New York congresswoman. NPC Daily is a satirical website that does not publish factual content. A brief bit of text below this article states: Yes, this entire website is satire and not meant to be taken seriously. The NPC Daily also elaborates on the nature of its content in its About page: If this satirical article seems a bit familiar, it may be because this site isn't the first to make a joke about how daylight saving time adds an extra hour of sunlight to the day and heats the earth more than necessary (the reality is that it merely shifts the time in which daylight hours occur). In 2007, for instance, many readers mistook a tongue-in-cheek letter to the editor published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as someone's genuine (and misguided) opinion on climate change. While daylight saving time does not add extra hours to the day, and while this quote from Ocasio-Cortez is fake, daylight saving time has its roots in energy consumption. Benjamin Franklin first (jokingly) proposed the concept as a method for preserving candles, and the United States adopted the practice during World War I in order to conserve energy for the war effort. While energy consumption may be at the heart of daylight saving, some research has shown that the practice doesn't conserve much energy:
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