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 ...
As for "health" consequences, bunk. Ask leading questions of enough suggestible people and you can get any answer you want.
In the 1930s, a fellow and his date couldn’t cuddle up like what was possible in the 50s and 60s.
I remember the year we had year round DST. The sun came up at 8:45 in January.
Guess they didn’t live in slow time all the time. If they had, I guess they’d have lived to 120.
well old enough to practice law I see and deserve credit for getting the forum’s tit out of the ringer
even if I disagree with you I commend that
I hate it too. I hate the change.
Either keep all year or get rid of it.
Getting rid of it would mean the crack of dawn in summertime where I live would be 4am. That’s too early to see anyone’s crack, especially ole Mr. Sunshine.
I wouldn’t mind staying on it all year, I like dark mornings and bright evenings. Florida was considering doing that.
Or you could split the difference and move half an hour forward and stay there.
I would like an extra hour every few weekends, say once a month, as long as I dont have a job where I have to work that extra hour (midnight shift on weekends) like my Mom did before she retired.
I worked on a ranch in Nevada for a couple of years...none of the neigbors or the guy I worked for changed their clocks. We stayed on Austin, (Nv) time which was before the sun came up until after it went down. I never even wore a wrist watch for two years!
What a pain that was when I was working at a mine in California and living in Yuma.
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