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The New York Times article on the subject discusses some of the benefits: > In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of mo

The New York Times article on the subject discusses some of the benefits: > In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of more than 185,000 people from 1995 to 2012. They found that the fall transition to standard time was associated with an 11 percent increase in depressive episodes, an effect that took 10 weeks to dissipate. The spring switch, by contrast, had no similar effect. > Retail and leisure industries have argued that more light in the evenings would give consumers more time to spend money, and proponents also argue that lighter evenings would translate to fewer robberies[2] and safer roads[3]. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/daylight-saving-time-senate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/15/us/politics/daylight-savi... 1 https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2017/05000/Daylight_Savings_Time_Transitions_and_the.7.aspx https://journals.lww.com/epidem/Fulltext/2017/05000/Daylight... 2 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/10/29/fighting-crime-with-daylight-saving-time/#cancel https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2015/10/29/figh... 3 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12067111/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12067111/

Wowfunhappy 5y ago
> In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of more than 185,000 people from 1995 to 2012. They found that the fall transition to standard time was associated with an 11 percent increase in depressive episodes, an effect that took 10 weeks to dissipate. The spring switch, by contrast, had no similar effect. Yeah, I've seen that before, and I've always found it incredibly unconvincing. The thing about the fall is that there's also less sunlight in general, at any time of day, and DST won't change that. I'd be very curious to see a study conducted before/after temporary all-year DST in the 70s, although it probably doesn't exist.

Wowfunhappy 5y ago

> In one 2017 study[1] from Denmark, scientists analyzed a psychiatric database of more than 185,000 people from 1995 to 2012. They found that the fall transition to standard time was associated with an 11 percent increase in depressive episodes, an effect that took 10 weeks to dissipate. The spring switch, by contrast, had no similar effect. Yeah, I've seen that before, and I've always found it incredibly unconvincing. The thing about the fall is that there's also less sunlight in general, at any time of day, and DST won't change that. I'd be very curious to see a study conducted before/after temporary all-year DST in the 70s, although it probably doesn't exist.