An Hour at What Cost? The Harmful Effects of Daylight Savings

WEBMD ^ | 11-5-21 | Lindsay Kalter

[FamiliarFace]

That’s the way I like it. Give me one or the other, but I prefer DST. Kids have been going to school in the dark no matter which time it is.

[Rurudyne]

Daylight savings is white supremacy and disproportionately affects women and minorities.

[bigfootbob]

That is the smartest and best reason to keep DST and stay on it year round. These articles about death and mayhem because of the time change are crap. Nobody believes a word of it. The fact is you either appreciate the extra daylight you can utilize being outdoors or you don’t. Plain and simple.

[rlmorel]

I feel the same way.

For decades, I have left my house before six AM and get home after six PM, and in the winter it is dark all the time anyway.

[refreshed]

Having lived in Arizona most of my life and then moving to Indiana, I can say from an outsiders perspective that DST is soul sucking, one of the worst things about Indiana, and a very good reason to move back amongst other reasons or on its own.

[Grampa Dave]

Even though my wife has been retired from being an RN for 10 + years, she semi goes into orbit each fall worrying about our clocks, getting to church and other stuff due to the time change.

I refuse to create an unnecessary panic.

We got to church now via a delayed video recording when we want to watch it.

Then, we make zero appointments for the week after the change until mid afternoon. We go to bed, when we are ready and get up on our own time. We reset the clocks on the first or second afternoon after the time change.

Being retired, we can wake up, when we want to and go to bed whenever we feel like it. The few tv shows, we watch can be watched whenever we decide and not the nets’ schedules.

[bgill]

Split the difference. Set the time 30 minutes ahead and leave it there.

[rfreedom4u]

I wish we’d pick one or the other, set the clocks back or forward a half hour and never change them again.

[KarlInOhio]

Local time for everyone. Time zones are a Satanic-Railroad conspiracy.

And get rid of standard 24 hour days. Days can range from 23:59:38.7 to 24:00:29.9.

[Salman]

At this point the only reason it continues is inertia.

[mad_as_he$$]

I get so much more done on those longer days. ;-)

[_Jim]

re: “But all the computers are set up to automatically switch back and forth for Daylight Savings! “

NOT if you’re running Win Xp ... REMEMBER the date the ‘switch’ takes place was CHANGED by a week some years back, and AFTER SP3 for Win Xp was released ...

[_Jim]

re: “smartest and best reason to keep DST “

Brooklyn Bridge, sell, to you?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Interruptions to circadian rhythm can also impair focus and judgment.***

I used to work rotating shift in a power plant. the rotation was against the circadian rhythm. Midnights, evenings, days. A killer rotation.

[USS Alaska]

A 2019 report found a higher risk of heart attack after both time changes, but particularly during daylight saving.

Bullshit. Period.

[EVO X]

That second point is important. I’m convinced that DST was only adopted because so many of our largest cities at the time

Ditto. I spent some time in Detroit around this time of the year. Today's sunrise in Detroit is 8:11 AM. If it is heavily overcast it is still dark at 9 AM.

[USS Alaska]

Arizona never goes on DST

That's because of Wyatt Earp and killing those Clanton boys at sun up.

If it was daylight savings time, they'd have missed each other at the OK Corral.

Give that the series thought it deserves:)

[mware]

Retired now but remember how miserable I was for the first two weeks.

[9YearLurker]

I’m not retired, but mostly on my own schedule and I like similarly being oriented by the sun. I think it’s healthier for you, too.