Ron Propeil's advice

“Set it, and forget it.”

That was Ron Propeil’s declaration to buyers of his rotisserie oven several years ago, and it is what his audiences would yell during his television infomercials.

This, of course, was long after he became famous for his Veg-o-Matic, Pocket Fisherman and other inventions.

More recently people have been saying it in an entirely different context.

Now, it is used in reference to Daylight Saving Time.

They say quit fooling around with clocks.

Switching time at various arbitrary points in the year is frustrating and confusing, say proponents of eliminating time changes.

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