Posted on 09/03/2020 8:11:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin
For decades, many Americans have fiddled with their clocks each March and November as they “spring forward” or “fall back” to keep pace with daylight saving time (DST). Experts have historically claimed that the practice, which has roots in late 19th century and was widely instituted in 1966, benefits society by extending our sunlit hours and saving energy costs, although many others have called those benefits into question, as Amanda Kooser reports for CNET.
Last week, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) entered the debate, calling for the end of DST-related time-changes altogether. Instead, AASM leaders wrote in a statement in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, the country should abolish seasonal time changes in favor of a “fixed, national, year-round standard time.”
“Permanent, year-round standard time is the best choice to most closely match our circadian sleep-wake cycle,” M. Adeel Rishi, lead author on the AASM report and a Mayo Clinic sleep specialist, says in an accompanying statement. “Daylight saving time results in more darkness in the morning and more light in the evening, disrupting the body’s natural rhythm.”
The body’s circadian rhythms, per the National Institute of Health, are the physical, mental and behavioral changes that drive human’s health—otherwise known as one’s “biological clock,” that tells most humans to wake up with the sun and sleep when it goes down. AASM leaders argue that changing to standard time would help align peoples’ social clocks—for instance, when they’re expected to be at work—with their biological ones.
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I have never noticed any difference in me when we have a change. Maybe it’s because I have always had irregular sleep habits. I like DST because I like having the hours of sunlight later in the day when I can take advantage of them, and not earlier in the morning when I am still asleep.
Good. Time to abolish this lunacy.
>>Good. Time to abolish this lunacy.<<
+1 million
Remember year around DST for a few years in the 70s?
We should just leave it one way or the other. I don’t care which. It’s all just arbitrary.
AASM leaders wrote in a statement in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, the country should abolish seasonal time changes in favor of a “fixed, national, year-round standard time.”
If memory serves, Ben Franklin proposed it as a joke, because of his experiences in France (none of the shopkeepers opened up early enough to suit Benjamin).
Standard time is an abomination before God and man. Local solar time only!
Boiled down to its basics, Daylight Saving Time is the government blowing reveille on its bugle an hour early and telling you to get your lazy butt out of bed. If you lived by the sun, you would be out of bed at 4 am and in bed at 8 pm on June 21. DST is an attempt to shift our lives to match the sun more closely than our usual working 9-5 and playing 5-midnight.
You can even look at the standard time boundaries and see they are shifted westward from where they should be strictly geographically. That's because people want late sunlight to match their schedules rather than adjusting their schedules to match the sunlight.
People in lower latitudes, like Florida, south Texas and California, don’t need DST..................
Evening Outdoor chores/work is done.
It's Family time. Dinner and relax.
“Daylight saving time results in more darkness in the morning and more light in the evening...”
The sun, and the earth’s rotation does not care about daylight savings time and changing times on a clock does not increase or decrease the amount of light or darkness.
I agree, leave it one way or another. I prefer light into the evening, but I’ll take either.
I hear that there are additional car accidents right around the change. Abolishing DST will save lives!
How many lives have been lost to this murderous madness! To the streets! Let’s march on Washington!
Yes, I’ve noticed that some areas, such as much of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, really should be on Central Time, based on the 75 and 90 degree longitude center points of the Eastern and Central time zones. But for whatever reasons, those states want to be on Eastern time. That has the effect of delaying sunset on those long summer evenings.
No the earth does does not care. But it does change the amount of light in the morning or evening. Morning and Evening are defined periods of our day. You get the extra hour in one or the other. You still get the same overall. I know you know this, but we all collectively agree that those terms mean parts of our day. We schedule our lives around the clock.
I always have problems for a week or more (some years) when the change is made. Twice a year. I wish we would stay on one of the other.
Personally, like you, I prefer Daylight Savings Time hours to Standard Time, and wish we could just stay on that all year long.
Yes, God, let someone listen and abolish that horrendous practice.
Later sunlight is good across most of the US. So we should just stick to that and not fiddle with the back and forth.
If ever there were a demonstration of bureaucratic inertia,
that we didn’t settle on this decades ago is ample proof.
Like cutting a foot long piece of blanket off the top and sewing it on the bottom to create a longer blanket.
local noon should be close to when the sun is crossing the meridian. Standard Time means something and is how we should operate.
Changing clocks twice a year is nonsense. Shifting clocks to “daylight savings time” is arbitrary.
Maybe we should follow our great friends in China and establish a single time zone nationwide.
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