Posted on 03/10/2017 1:09:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
Yes, anyone who works outside is glad for DST.
Nah...
I’m turning my clocks BACK another hour this weekend.
I’m retired.
Late?
Late for what?
A friend of mine used to work days. Then a month later - nights. Month after that it was swing.
Lather, rinse, repeat. Every 30 days.
It was brutal. By the time he got used to one routine, it was time to change.
I don’t participate in Daylight savings. I keep the same schedule year round and never change my clocks.
I, for one, am much more likely to get outside and exercise or do yard work during DST. I have to believe that is helping me (and others) more than the sleep disruption is harmful.
If DST is killing you, then people should never be allowed to change job shifts or job schedules, due to the detrimental health effects. Think about how just starting back to school after summer break might be disrupting sleep schedules for billions of teens!! Maybe we should do away with school...
A little like the way Ramadan laps the sun every two years, because scientifically superior medieval Islam couldn't figure out what the scientifically inferior Bronze Age Judaism did, that if you're going to have lunar months and solar years you have to add a month every two years. But then, the Jews probably got that clever idea because of their white privilege.
I notice no difference in me when the time changes. And I have always enjoyed having my “extra” sunlight in the evening instead of before I get up.
two years=36 years :-)
“Failed” is your opinion
Year-round experiment (1974-1975)[edit]
During the 1973 oil embargo by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in an effort to conserve fuel, Congress enacted a trial period of year-round DST (P.L. 93-182), beginning January 6, 1974, and ending April 27, 1975.[8] The trial was hotly debated. Those in favor pointed to increased daylight hours in the winter evening: more time for recreation, reduced lighting and heating demands, reduced crime, and reduced automobile accidents. The opposition was concerned about children leaving for school in the dark. The act was amended in October 1974 (P.L. 93-434) to return to standard time for the period beginning October 27, 1974, and ending February 23, 1975, when DST resumed. When the trial ended in 1975, the country returned to observing summer DST (with the aforementioned exceptions).[7]
I do remember this. I remember going to school in the dark. I didn’t like it. But too bad. Kids today still go to school in the dark. So things are just as bad.
I knew some Air Traffic Controllers in the service overseas. They had them working 6 on, 12 off. They would work 4 different shifts over a 3 day period. Their goal of more alert, rested controllers produced zombies. Always tired, and their digestive systems all out of whack.
I don’t know why they don’t just add another hour of sunlight in the evening AND the morning during the winter time. That’s when we need it the most!
The human body is not at all adapted to this twice-a-year changing of the clocks. It does not occur in nature at all. Everyone should just admit that it sounded good at the time, but is a stupid idea. There is no perfect solution for what isn’t even a problem. Pick one, preferably Summer Time, and keep it all year around.
Could be worse. You could work at a cuckoo clock museum, and have to change all the clocks twice a year.
The human body is not adapted to living by a clock. A natural life is waking up when you've had enough sleep, regardless of what time it is. An unnatural life is waking up when an alarm clock tells you to.
He was joking.
Tell me exactly how cutting one foot off the end of a blanket and sewing it on the other end gets you more blanket?
Gain an hour of sunlight? I feel like I'm losing an hour of sunlight because now when I get up, it's going to be pitch dark.
Shift work is terrible for you.
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