Posted on 11/06/2021 5:54:29 AM PDT by dynachrome
In a 2015 study published in Sleep Medicine, researchers compared the rate of strokes during the week after daylight saving to the rate 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after. They found the rate was 8% higher the first 2 days after the shift, and people with cancer were 25% more likely to have a stroke than during other times of year. People over 65 were 20% more likely.
A 2019 report found a higher risk of heart attack after both time changes, but particularly during daylight saving.
Interruptions to circadian rhythm can also impair focus and judgment. A 2020 study found fatal traffic accidents increased by 6% in the United States during daylight saving time.
“Most people think an hour would be inconsequential,” Czeisler says. “And it's true that we can adjust. But even that small adjustment does have consequences.”
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It is insane that we weren’t able to shake this decades ago.
I’ve considered daylight savings time to be our culture’s “vestigial organ” for decades.
Twice a year these people come out and complain about DST.
If they succeed in getting rid of it, there will emerge another set of people complaining about their kids having to go to school in the dark. I suppose that’ll create pressure to do away with set hours for the school day, and other forms of group activity.
Probably the people agitating to bring it back will mostly be the same people who agitated to get rid of it.
My daughter lives in Maine. We visited her in the winter last year. Pitch black at 3:45pm until 8:30am. And 10 degrees! We were ready for bed at 7:00.
We bought her a “happy” light designed to keep people from going insane. They actually work.
I was in IT as a programmer and for many applications and modifications to apps we had to insert a lot of code to take care of this nonsense. Nobody can really explain why we really need it today. Well, not convincingly at least.
Daylight savings time is like cutting the ends off the christmas ham before it goes in the oven. We do it because we’ve always done it, because that’s what great grandma did.
And she did it because those old ovens were too small to fit a full ham. 🤣
If we stop it now all the computers will crash! We will be doomed!
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(if you don't recognize sarcasm then shame on you!)
Lived in Alaska a while. I am a summer sizzle and sun person. Share your happy light info? I have tried to embrace dark and cold, too much like death, I guess. Can’t do anything outside too long.. yep. I need a good happy light, might need to get ones for the girls too.
I don’t participate. When the clocks go back I go back. I wake up at 6 instead of 7. Sleep at 10 instead of 11. Take all my meals one hour earlier.
As I’ve gotten older, my body just does not adjust well to the time change.
I don’t participate. When the clocks go back I go back. I wake up at 6 instead of 7. Sleep at 10 instead of 11. Take all my meals one hour earlier.
As I’ve gotten older, my body just does not adjust well to the time change.
Hard to buy the farming excuse when I think of the old farmer in my family who never changed his clocks.
And the school bus bit doesn’t make sense either. Schools can set whatever start time they want for the year.
I think the energy-saving rationale has been pretty thoroughly debunked as well.
Standard time sucks. Give people daylight so they can get things done, or enjoy activities after work.
Standard time sucks. Give people daylight so they can get things done, or enjoy activities after work.
Worse than Y2K!! lol
I lived in Maine. Went into work for 6 AM. Often worked until 4:30. There would be days when I never saw the sunlight outdoors.
I hated that.
That's the traditional, "northern way"!
I thought it was about making war. Changing the clocks gave armies an extra hour to kill each other.
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