Daylight saving time may be killing you

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 3/10/17 12:11 PM | John Siciliano

[M Kehoe]

A study from the Kehoe Institute of Geriatrics states that no one gets off this planet alive.

8^)

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[sharkhawk]

Does everyone who hates DST live in the South. I know in Chicago I appreciate it. If we stayed on regular time all year, the sun would rise at 4:30 in the summer and set at 7:30, if we went to DST in winter, the sun would rise at 8:30 and set at 5:00. Does changing the clock on a Saturday really bother people that much?

[Daveinyork]

I remember that, too.

[bgill]

Split the difference. Thirty minutes. Stick to it all year.

The fur babies can’t tell time. Come daybreak, it’s FEED ME!

[Gay State Conservative]

Nobody needs "studies" to know that having your sleep cycle disputed twice a year is bad for you.It's almost as if the clowns in charge want the public to be permanently groggy.

I,like many other Freepers,have taken some long plane rides in my life.Mine include many in an east-west direction,that is,crossing time zones.I think the most time zones I crossed in any 24 hour period was 12 (Boston to Hong Kong,non-stop).

Anyone who's ever crossed more than a few time zones in a short period know "jet lag".My fairly signifigant experience with jet lag is that for a few days after taking the flight you feel bad...even terrible...but then you feel absolutely normal.

The concept of a one hour change in clocks...twice a year...being dangerous in any way to anyone but the most "unhealthy" is,IMO,beyond silly.

[Sooner Gal]

The daylight hours (in relation to a clock) naturally change as the seasons change.

It’s not the simple act of resetting a clock that bothers people “that much”. It’s having to make an abrupt adjustment (for a change that is occurring anyway) rather than a gradual one.

[Organic Panic]

DST is kept to remind everyone that an all powerful government controls everything in your life. Including time.

Personally, I’m self employed and don’t care about it. I also hate the entire concept of DST. It is stupid, always has been stupid, and always will be stupid.

[BenLurkin]

Well there was that one Russian astronaut...but his capsule will be back to visit in about 100 years or so.

[VTenigma]

Just move the clocks ahead 1/2 hr and call it good. Gees how hard is this. It’s stupid to move the clocks twice a year.

[TigersEye]

I hate it. I call it Government Time.

[Bellflower]

I we want the light in the evening. I want them to keep the extra hour of light in the evening permanently.

[pa_dweller]

In the summer it’s the crazy chortling birds starting up at 4:30 followed by the beginning of daylight at 5 that make the DST so wearying.

Which is exacerbated by wanting to have the windows open to get a cool nighttime air through the room after being cooped up all winter.

[G Larry]

I actually stay pretty busy, but I couldn’t pass on the chance for a punchline.

[daniel1212]

An hour you don’t have to use electricity for artificial light every day adds up, no wonder a energy company wants to put an end to that. Frankly, I don’t like it getting dark at 5 p.m, and light at 4 a.m. so I like DST.

Indeed,which likely means that you live in the northern US. It get dark at 4pm here in Jan. versus 8pm in July.

[thulldud]

“Failed” is your opinion

Not an unreasonable opinion. It was the infuriated moms that shrieked about their kiddies waiting for school buses in the dark. Nobody wanted to buck that tsunami of outrage, or risk a recurrence. Feminism was on its upswing then.

I was not adversely affected by the year-round DST, being myself neither a mom nor a schoolkid. I just thought was a dumb idea.