Posted on 03/11/2023 9:49:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Last year the U.S. Senate surprised everyone and unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would have kept the country permanently on daylight savings time. Not many bills get the thumbs up from every senate member, so there was a sense that switching clocks twice a year had met its final Waterloo. But then the measure went to the House, where it died. So here we are again, ready to do the time change tango tomorrow, March 12, leaving many to wonder if the business of clock changing will ever come to an end.
What is Happening Between Fox and Trump? Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey (D) has been the point man for keeping daylight savings time (DST) permanently. He recently asserted, “The sun doesn’t have any enemies.” But he may be wrong about that. Sleep doctors maintain an extra hour of sunshine can mess with human circadian rhythms.
The American Medical Association is in favor of eradicating daylight savings time altogether. Neurologists and Cardiac specialists argue that shifting to an extra hour of daylight results in “a higher risk of cardiac problems such as heart attack, atrial fibrillation-related hospital visits, and an increase in ischemic stroke,” according to the Wall Street Journal. As well, shifting the time can cause a lower cognitive performance level, resulting in more car accidents, according to a study by John Hopkins and Stanford University. Conducted just before the turn of the century, their research revealed fatal car accidents rose approximately 5% on the Monday following the spring forward. What appears unclear in all this research is whether the negative effects of DST are a result of the “change” or a result of living with an extra hour of sunlight.
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I don’t have a problem with the change, especially since they went to an 8 to 4 month split from the 6/6 it used to be.
But if they’re going to cut out any clock change, then it seems the best thing is to keep Standard Time and cut out DST.
I spent nine years in Arizona which does not observe Daylight Savings Time. I know that the high heat makes that rule very practical but I got used to it and I wish that Standard Time is all we used nationwide. I don’t like kids at the morning bus stop in the dark.
Just leave the clock alone...
if you want an extra hour of daylight, then get up an hour earlier or go to bed an hour later...
YES!
Why are we still doing this?
The usual excuse is that it’s for the farmers. Who work by the sun, not the clock. Go figure.
It should be a matter for each state to decide.
I do know of one big "inconvenience" here in California if we didn't set the clocks ahead in the Spring: From mid-May to mid-June it would start getting light at 3:30 a.m. ... a bit early in the morning if you ask me!
I am 100% for ending this stupidity!
I agree.
That is Alaska for the majority of the school year. The kids will be alright.
Well then, get up with the sun and go to bed with the moon....
It is only an hour. That disrupts your circadian rythyms. Accidents increase substantially as do heart attacks following messing with time. It is hard on many people and an extremely stupid thing to do.
Only the government is stupid enough to think you can cut off a foot at the bottom of a blanket and sew it at the top and think you have a longer blanket.
LOL...That is government thinking, for sure...LOL
I’m retired. I go to bed when I fall asleep in the chair by the fire and I get up when I need to pee. Life can be cruel.
Amen!
This all makes me think of this idiot I worked with years ago...
We started to have to sign in when we got to work....
He said he hated having to get up early to get to work on time...
Go figure....
I’m also retired and I do basically the same...I go when I want and get up when I have to...
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