Before crunchy cons rush to embrace Daylight Saving Time because it supposedly promotes outdoorsmanship and family values, read the piece in today’s WSJ by Michael Downing (no free link) — he points out that consumerism is a big part of the motivation behind DST, because it lets golf courses operate later and so on. But then again, as I understand crunchy cons, they like a lot of regulations. So why not regulate time itself? Just another thing, apparently, that the government can’t leave well enough alone.