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Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent

4 points by mzs 4y ago

ianai 4y ago
Just yesterday I read the healthful change would be to make standard time permanent. Darker afternoons actually result in better sleep. (I think on Wapo…) “Sleep experts and neurologists urgently cautioned that shifting away from early-morning sunlight would harm circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health. ” Edit-“A congressional aide who has been working on the issue put it more bluntly: “We’d be pissing off half the country no matter what,”” I’d call that a reason for more time zones not more seasonal changes at the national level. Or just straight up don’t have time zones and every locality just figure it out according to the sun and GMT.
- quantified 4y ago
  We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. But I like the idea that midday is when the sun is highest. It seems like an argument between morning people and evening people being played out. For farmers, the animals and plants don't watch clock. Children wake up with the sun regardless. Just make it standard all the time anyway. Its not like we "save" it anyway. You can't spend the savings and we "save" it when we have more than enough anyway, we can call it "daylight spending time" to be more accurate.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    > We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. They're just numbers, but they're also written into our customs and laws. Pushing back the start of school by an hour, for example, would involve many stakeholders and bureaucratic processes, even if it were just in response to permanent DST. IMO, it makes far more sense to adopt permanent standard time. Individual organizations can still switch in the other direction, but defaults are powerful!
Traubenfuchs 4y ago
https://archive.ph/YDAdE https://archive.ph/YDAdE

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Clock runs out on efforts to make daylight saving time permanent

4 points by mzs 4y ago

ianai 4y ago
Just yesterday I read the healthful change would be to make standard time permanent. Darker afternoons actually result in better sleep. (I think on Wapo…) “Sleep experts and neurologists urgently cautioned that shifting away from early-morning sunlight would harm circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health. ” Edit-“A congressional aide who has been working on the issue put it more bluntly: “We’d be pissing off half the country no matter what,”” I’d call that a reason for more time zones not more seasonal changes at the national level. Or just straight up don’t have time zones and every locality just figure it out according to the sun and GMT.
- quantified 4y ago
  We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. But I like the idea that midday is when the sun is highest. It seems like an argument between morning people and evening people being played out. For farmers, the animals and plants don't watch clock. Children wake up with the sun regardless. Just make it standard all the time anyway. Its not like we "save" it anyway. You can't spend the savings and we "save" it when we have more than enough anyway, we can call it "daylight spending time" to be more accurate.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    > We're free to permanently be on DST and shift hours from 9-5 to 10-6 or whatever. They're just numbers. They're just numbers, but they're also written into our customs and laws. Pushing back the start of school by an hour, for example, would involve many stakeholders and bureaucratic processes, even if it were just in response to permanent DST. IMO, it makes far more sense to adopt permanent standard time. Individual organizations can still switch in the other direction, but defaults are powerful!
Traubenfuchs 4y ago
https://archive.ph/YDAdE https://archive.ph/YDAdE