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Your comment neatly encapsulates the problem. If the primary driver of our circadian rhythm is sunlight, switching from DST and back leads you to doing stuff a
by thawaya3113 5y ago
Your comment neatly encapsulates the problem.
If the primary driver of our circadian rhythm is sunlight, switching from DST and back leads you to doing stuff an hour off from your body’s natural circadian rhythm.
It’s not about changing your clock. It’s about changing your body’s schedule.
- ouid 5y agoThe hour of sunlight is approximately sinusoidal. Changing time is approximating the sinusoid with a square wave. It's not as smooth as it could be, but smoothing it out would cause more accounting problems than it would solve. It is also easier to manage than having schools and businesses change their hours in winter, which is the other way to approach the solution. If you want a smoother transition you are fully in control of that.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoYour body's natural schedule operates on a day that's 24.18 hours long. The only reason we don't get hopelessly out of sync is because our internal clock is "reset" by the sun each day. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biological-clock-set-back-an-hour/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/1999/07/human-biologi...