Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Daylight Saving Time (sucks) for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News


I concluded Samantha Bee helps update 'Vox on Puerto Rico statehood and John Oliver on territories,' the fourth most read entry of the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News by promising that "the next retrospective, which I plan on posting next week, will be about how much people think Daylight Saving Time sucks.  Yes, really."  That's because two posts that reached the all-time top ten and were among the top ten entries of the seventh year of the blog were about the drawbacks of Daylight Saving Time.  I shared both at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page with little more description than "Daylight Saving Time sucks, amirite?"   Thousands of readers agreed with that sentiment.

The fifth most read entry during the seventh year of the blog and the second most read from the back catalog was Spring ahead, although it's probably not good for you from March 12, 2017, which was also the second most read entry during March 2018.  It had 395 raw views before being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page and earned 8243 page views during March 2017.  That was also the total default page views for the entry over its lifetime, while it had 8638 total raw page views as of March 20, 2018.  This post helped earn 9680 page views to the blog the day it was shared.  That pushed the monthly total over the monthly page goal on March 11, 2018.

I made a mistake in Update to 'Doctors to Congress: Fund gun violence research at the CDC and NIH,' the third most read entry of the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News. I wrote that Instructions on how to deal with an active shooter knocked John Oliver on feelings over facts and Colbert on Trumpiness out of the top ten.  That was wrong.  It pushed Fall back as 'Last Week Tonight' asks 'how is this still a thing?'.  Spring ahead, although it's probably not good for you kicked out John Oliver on feelings over facts and Colbert on Trumpiness instead.  Too bad, as it would have been fitting for one Daylight Saving Time entry to replace another.  Either way, sic transit gloria mundi.

Since March 20, 2018, it has fallen to seventh place on the all-time list after being passed by Update to 'Vox explains how proportional representation can solve gerrymandering and help minor parties,' the second most read entry for the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News, plus minor parties and Facebook knows your political affiliation and much more.

The second top post about Daylight Saving Time and its issues was Fall back as 'Last Week Tonight' asks 'how is this still a thing?' from November 5, 2017.  It was the ninth most read post of the seventh year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News and the seventh most read entry actually posted during the seventh year of the blog with 4915 default and 5044 raw page views as of March 20, 2018.  This post had 153 default and 161 raw page views before being shared at the Join the Coffee Party Movement Facebook page.  It earned 1716 page views in the first two hours and ~4500 total in the first 24 hours after being shared.  It passed 'The Handmaid's Tale' sweeps last night of Emmys to win five awards with 3658 page views between 9 and 10 A.M. on 11/7/17 to enter the all-time top ten.  It passed "Federal judge orders Michigan recount to begin today" from December 5, 2016 with 3875 default page views to reach ninth about 11 A.M.  It reached sixth before 4 P.M.  It passed "Michigan recount still on as Trump fails to stop it while Schuette still trying" to reach fifth on November 9th.

As I wrote above, Instructions on how to deal with an active shooter knocked it out of the top ten early in March 2018.  It was a good four months.

I'll have the next retrospective next week.  I expect I will be writing about my predictions about the tax bill.   I don't know if any other posts will fit the theme.  In the meantime, stay tuned for entries about Yuri's Night and Apophis Day.

Follow over the jump for links to previous retrospectives about holidays, the back catalog, and earlier entries in this series.

Daylight Saving Time isn't a holiday, but I treat the days it begins and ends as holidays, so here is a linkspam to previous retrospectives about holidays.
The top post in this entry is also from the back catalog, so here are links to previous retrospectives about the back catalog. Finally, here are the links to previous entries in this series.
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