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Yes. DST reduces the risk of car accidents, and the rate of robberies and violent crime. For example: http://www.businessinsider.com/robbery-rates-drop-daylig

by nilved 10y ago

Yes. DST reduces the risk of car accidents, and the rate of robberies and violent crime. For example: http://www.businessinsider.com/robbery-rates-drop-daylight-saving-time-2015-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/robbery-rates-drop-daylight-s...

astrodust 10y ago
Those statistics are total garbage. Do they compare states and provinces with DST vs. those without? No. Additionally if DST is so great, why not stay on it permanently like Russia? There's also a link to an article on "How to get six pack abs" right after, so seriously, the scientific merit of this is highly questionable.
- trhway 10y ago
  >Additionally if DST is so great, why not stay on it permanently like Russia? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/060309-daylight-saving-savings-time-nation-science-sunday/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/060309-daylight-s... “Stalin changed the clocks in the spring of 1930,” Downing explains. “He forced all of the Soviet Union onto [daylight saving time]. And then in October he forgot to tell the Soviets to fall back. So the clocks in every Russian time zone were off by an hour for 61 years.” Having mini-Stalin again, Russia started to play with time again: "Since then Russia has experimented with permanent “summer time” and now, as of 2014, eschews daylight saving time altogether for permanent Standard Time. "
  - banksecopsguy 10y ago
    Why does it make sense to have permanent DST instead of a permanent change in office timing? Why permanently change the meaning of what it means to be a midnight w.r.t. the sun when one can elegantly achieve the same effect by permanently changing the office hours?
    - astrodust 10y ago
      Less paperwork presumably. Everyone already knows what Russian summer time is. If Russia unilaterally bumped time zones that would require a lot of administrative work. Honestly, if the sun is such a big deal then having summer office hours would make more sense than changing time-zones.

by nilved 10y ago

astrodust 10y ago

Those statistics are total garbage. Do they compare states and provinces with DST vs. those without? No. Additionally if DST is so great, why not stay on it permanently like Russia? There's also a link to an article on "How to get six pack abs" right after, so seriously, the scientific merit of this is highly questionable.

trhway 10y ago
>Additionally if DST is so great, why not stay on it permanently like Russia? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/060309-daylight-saving-savings-time-nation-science-sunday/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/060309-daylight-s... “Stalin changed the clocks in the spring of 1930,” Downing explains. “He forced all of the Soviet Union onto [daylight saving time]. And then in October he forgot to tell the Soviets to fall back. So the clocks in every Russian time zone were off by an hour for 61 years.” Having mini-Stalin again, Russia started to play with time again: "Since then Russia has experimented with permanent “summer time” and now, as of 2014, eschews daylight saving time altogether for permanent Standard Time. "
- banksecopsguy 10y ago
  Why does it make sense to have permanent DST instead of a permanent change in office timing? Why permanently change the meaning of what it means to be a midnight w.r.t. the sun when one can elegantly achieve the same effect by permanently changing the office hours?
  - astrodust 10y ago
    Less paperwork presumably. Everyone already knows what Russian summer time is. If Russia unilaterally bumped time zones that would require a lot of administrative work. Honestly, if the sun is such a big deal then having summer office hours would make more sense than changing time-zones.