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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at webmd.com ...
I thought it was about making war. Changing the clocks gave armies an extra hour to kill each other.
I only complain once a year--in March or whenever DST starts.
"Real" time is shrinking.
When I was young, we had equal time: 6 six months of DST and 6 months of "real" time. Now it's more like 8 to 4. Talk about government overreach.
It's already November and we're still on DST. Enough already.
An interesting article.
‘Fall back’ no more? Where all 50 states stand on making daylight saving time permanent
All my life, I have looked forward to having that extra hour of daylight during the warm months so that I could get home from work, slap a steak on the grill, crack a beer and sit on my back deck with plenty of daylight left to go before darkness and mosquitoes set in.
Doing away with that extra hour of daylight because it is inconvenient for a few old cranks to move a few clocks back and forth twice a year will be a kick in the stomach to all the working people who keep this world running for everybody else.
Now it is time to give that extra hour of daylight back as we move into the darker, colder winter months because the OTHER side of the day is now plunged in darkness and those same working people have to get up in the morning for work and fumble for light switches and stumble out to their cars in the icy, cold darkness to defrost their windshields. So having that daylight moved back to morning in winter helps the working people as well as the dim, low sun at least has a fighting chance to attack those windshields as we are frying our eggs and drinking our black coffee indoors.
It's dark when we get home but it's too cold to do anything outdoors anyway this time of year.
So let's keep that Daylight Savings time going for all the working people out there who work hard to keep the lights on for all the rest of us. Surely the moving around of a few clocks twice a year cannot be that bad of an inconvenience.
If a politician were to run on ONE issue of eliminating DST they could be elected Ruler Of The Universe.
I like Daylight Savings. Where I live the sun would be bright in the sky at 4AM in May/June/July without it. I’d much rather have daylight be from 5AM to 8PM than 4AM to 7PM.
Agreed, but you walked into it.
I tend to do that often!
Most states against changing time want DST to be permanent,
Yeah, you wake up before the chickens and go to bed after the owl hoots. You regulate by the sunrise and sunset.
We are retired, so that is how it works for us. We change our clocks so that we are on time for necessary appointments.
I’ve been prepping for this for about two weeks as I don’t do well with the change.
Maybe it’s the lack of sunlight. Doh!
Princess, try my method if your work schedule permits doing it. It works.
That second point is important. I’m convinced that DST was only adopted because so many of our largest cities at the time — NYC, Philadelphia and Boston in EST, Chicago and St. Louis in CST, etc. — were at the eastern ends of their time zones and have early sunsets for their clock times.
Arizona never goes on DST
I live outside of Boston.
I have zero problems with dark mornings...
Not this one😊
Put an end to drive end theaters....never forgave the politicians for it!!!
Actually, it’s what I set my body up for. I moved working out to immediately after work and started staying up until 11 and getting up a 7. Tomorrow night I will be ready to sleep at 10 and get up at 6
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