Posted on 03/09/2013 1:23:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Daylight Saving Time starts at 2:00 AM tomorrow morning and there are increasing calls to end the practice. Part of the reason are the health effects, which are serious. And then there's the extra energy usage that we can't afford in this day and age.
From LA Times:
Once again, the oft-dreaded daylight saving time change is upon us. The day that the clocks "spring" forward also inevitably takes a spring out of our step.
Sure, the birds seem to chirp a little later, the sunlight shines a little less as we drag ourselves through the morning routine. But as study after study has shown, that seems to be about the only highlight in those first days after the change.
According to the Better Sleep Council, a nonprofit organization supported by mattress manufacturers, 61% of U.S. adults say daylight saving time affects their work the Monday after the changeover.
In a survey of 1,038 adults, the immediate effects of losing an hour of shuteye affected everything from people's moods to eating and driving habits.
About 29% of those surveyed said it takes a week to adjust to the change, with adults between 18 and 34 needing the most time to get with the new program. (But let's face it: those at the younger end of that range may struggle to get out of bed regardless.)
But don't just take the mattress industry's word for it. A number of studies over the last 13 years have highlighted the range of health consequences of people ill-prepared to start their morning routine just 60 minutes earlier.
According to a 2008 Swedish study, there's a 6% to 10% increase in heart attacks in the first three workdays after the start of daylight saving time.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Why don’t they go to bed earlier or stay in bed an extra hour? Surely a one hour difference is not an insurmountable obstacle to intelligent, conscientious self supportive adults.
Then they didn’t live in slow time all the time, did they?
“there isn’t enough light after paid work to do any outdoor chores and stuff”
Are you aware they sell artificial light nowadays?
That’s simply boy true. Not for me, anyway. And I’ve never, ever walker into a house with lights on in every room containing a conscious human. I read books, for instance, by the light of sun during the day—imagine suand by lamp after the sun goes down. The only room I always illuminate during the day is the bathroom, which has no window.
I thought those pesky attendants carrying flashlights destroyed the drive-in-movie industry...
Some never adjust......
I live on EDST, my wife lives on EST...... regardless of the season or what the clock says.
We are one hour apart
It might have also had something to do with all us guys who git in riding in the trunk...
I don’t care whether it is DST or CST. Just quit makng us change the clocks twice a year.
Just set the clocks forward a half hour and leave it. Split the difference and call it a day.
HERE! HERE! Get rid of this silly tradition!
It is has been proven the DST costs more energy that it is supposed to save. Take a Taiwan for example were energy is expensive. If DST saved energy, wouldn’t they be on DST.
eliminating DST would anger the “10 percent” while pleasing a much smaller number of logical, math & science types.
10% think the moon landings were fake
10% think Bush steered Katrina into NO for kicks
10% think the American Civil War was when the brave and noble Democrats fought to free the slaves from the ebil, racist Republicans.
so, no doubt 10% believe the ‘government’ has given them an extra hour of daylight, and now someone wants to take it away!
(there was actually a Dem city council politician in Indy who claimed this, much to the approval of her constituents)
We aren’t totally medieval-we have plenty of electricity and light, thanks. Chores aren’t about the lack artificial light, or the ability to use it. Livestock is pretty ignorant, though-goats, chickens, etc don’t stand patiently and wait for someone to bring a light after dark to get them penned so they won’t get eaten by predators-animals live in the natural world, and don’t give a damn if the clock is set forward an hour...
you might enjoy it, but you can gain that by changing your own schedule. That’s the problem with DST, a small percentage of the people enjoy the shift it causes to their schedule, but the vast majority gain no benefit, and yet everybody has to shift. People who want more sunshine later in their personal daily schedule should make their own adjustments and leave everybody else alone.
It’s true most places I go. And more importantly it’s true in the business sector who have a lot more lights and burn a lot more electricity than households.
has got to be in the commie manifesto somewhere...
Save me a lot of time..........: )
No, we just need DST to go year-round.
How hard is it to go to bed an hour earlier?
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