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.
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Most folks have the lights on, to get better more even light. And businesses too. Which is why DST doesn’t save electricity. When people are awake and doing stuff the lights are on, regardless of the sun or the clock.
Actually change anything, I live in AZ. Just preaching the sanity.
It doesn’t make summer better, it doesn’t accomplish anything.
I HATE Daylight Savings Time. Always have.
I despise daylight savings time...government time.
Time should be based on the position of the sun with noon being high noon.
Sundial time is real time. Once you set it, it doesn’t take a bureaucrat to tell you what time he wants it to be.
Are time zones reasonable approximations of reality in terms of the earth’s daily ~24 hour rotation. Yep. So, tell the bureaucrats to leave me alone.
I hate it
My kids go to school at 615 on bus for 730 classes
Dark more often than not
And longer now
Oh bull
Drive Ins died long before Blockbuster
How old are you son?
I think suburban multiplex killed drive ins
Starting. Mid 70s
That and a muddier distinction tween real movies for theatre and pulp for drive ins
Back in the day TCSM was for sure drive in
Now it would be theatre
I know where a few drive-ins survive. The advent of cable TV and HBO killed it.
Older than you think.
Wouldn’t it be easier, and more logical, if employers chose to change their work hours? Why change the standard when all it takes is to move the start/finish time forward or back.
Give me daylight savings time all the time and dump standard.
Daylight Savings Time makes me sick. Sitting down o eat dinner when the sun is beating down and its 104 degrees outside in July here in Texas is horrible. THE EVENING MEAL SHOULD BE relaxing, it should be twilight. Not as bright as high noon in the Sarah desert. The days are already longer in the summer, too long, too hot and too glaring and bright. I suffer from Seasonal affective disorder but only in Summer. I hate DST.
Why extend daylight in the Summer. It should be extended in Winter. That would help the millions of people who have winter SAD.
Daylight savings time is unnatural too. Our bodies really take stress trying to adjust to such an artificial imposition. And not just for the first few days.
YES!
I have always hated DST especially on the weekend when they borrow an hour from our lives tonight. The Sunday after that loss has been reported to have the highest number of heart attacks of all days.
Then it got expanded by the Bush-Pelosi energy bill to early March claiming it would ‘save electricity’ claiming by ‘giving’ us an extra hour of light at night we would not turn on the lights till later.
Of course where we live it gets real hot in the summer so using that rational to save energy you would want it getting dark earlier not later because the Sunlight keeps the AC running longer costing more $$$$.
Think about it: if you were in the desert, the last thing you would want is extra daylight. Because of the hot climate, adding an extra hour of daylight would cause more of an energy crunch with AC working longer and harder. ( This part of the answer is retarded cause you are just changing the time, not magically moving the sun to make the daylight longer. The days are gonna be longer in summertime because the earth has tilted on its axis and we are receiving more light and you are gonna use the same amount of energy anyway. DST is just a way for big businesses to capitalize on the more sunlight during these months, Arizona just realized this was BS and refused to comply)
Arizona is on Mountain Standard Time (MST) year-round.
Yes. Please. End the DST madness already.
More light in the evening? Meh. I want more light in the morning, and am appalled at how it is denied me by mob rule just as dawn is returning at a sensible time.
Thanks for posting this S+F, you are one of my favorite posters here. You post the best threads.
Oh, I complain about DST in the fall too. The arguments in favor apply then too, so if you’re going to mess with the clocks then do it once and be done with it already.
It does for me. As i said already, extra daylight at 4:30 am doesn’t do anything for me. More light in the after work hours does make summer better.
Now i understand someone in Houston or Phoenix may be looking forward to the darkness for relief. But in the north, it works out just fine.
Yes, please.
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