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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Why do we call it Standard Time when we’re only on it for about 4 months?
Agreed.
My great grandmother insisted on that.
My mother used to fall asleep in her chair, usually while watching an opera on DVD. Then she’d wake up and go to bed, and she couldn’t sleep.
Put them in a room and give them knives. Which ever survives, Standard or DST, we switch to and never change again.
You are too kind.
The point I am making is that this single one-hour change is equivalent to driving from Chicago to spend a week in Detroit. In far less than a day's time you won't notice the difference, if you notice it at all.
I can easily understand if it was a six-hour change or even a three-hour change where the effects may indeed be more noticeable and a normal person may need a day or three to adjust ... but one hour difference? -- give me a break!
Now, there are a host of valid reasons for not wanting to move the clocks back and forth twice a year, but circadian rhythm disruption, increased heart attacks, and more traffic accidents aren't among them despite the "research" you mention (but do not cite) of some, likely, self-proclaimed time-change "experts". (BTW- Haven't you learned from the past three years that what "experts" say and what "studies" report must, at best, be taken with an enormous grain of salt ... and, in the interest of maintaining good mental and physical health, should in many cases be dismissed with but casual interest or be disregarded completely?)
Be well ... and Cheers! For now I must turn my attention to even more serious matters such as should the toilet paper roll be positioned such that the paper is dispensed over the roll rather than from under the roll. Now that's a topic worthy of its on thread!
A lot of silly whining. If one hour screws up things, how do those folks deal with changing time zones?
I have 3.
That is not a narrative I’d be reading on a dark, stormy Winter night, no matter how well-built the house or how warm the fire in the wood stove is...
Yeah. Discount it all you want. Ignorance is truly bliss..
Here are a few articles. I would post more, but I am at a workshop and posting on my phone is a pain.
Now I cited some, despite your laziness to look them up and dealing with posting them on a phone. There is a huge difference between the health “experts” of the last three years about covid and decades of research about the health effects of changing the time. Good luck orienting the toilet paper rolls.
U.S. fatal car crashes spiked 6% during the workweek after daylight saving time began, resulting in an additional 28 deaths each year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-deadly-2018-3?op=1
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-accidents-daylight-saving-idUSKBN1ZT2W3
Agreed. It’s from a story of finding one of the miners dead and chipping out a grave in the frozen tundra.
Oh, and be assured that I am blissful in my purported ignorance of these "studies" by the many "experts" ... although 58 years as an environmental engineer in heavy industry and big agriculture counts for something, too, you must acknowledge.
Blessings to you as well. I am only at 42 years as an education and research psychologist, so not 58 years. I suspect we would enjoy more than a few beers together. Oh well, back to my workshop on nutrition and brain function (Workshops to maintain licensure are painful and insufferable). Take care and be well
Used to be the last weekend in March and October.
Why’d they change it?
The massive earthquake in Sri Lanka?
I’m really hoping the extra hour of sunlight will help melt all this snow we have in Wyoming. ;)
I wonder if the stress causes more premature deliveries of babies?
Very cute! (Sitting here chuckling.)
Glad to bring a smile to someone :)
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