I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again
It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations
It screws corporations as well, anyone that has a database or deals with time in any way. I’d call it a huge hazard technilogically to willy nilly change the time for no reason.
We have been changing the time for 70+ years. Nothing about it is Willy nilly. There is a reason. The reason may invalid at this point.
This same bullshit could be said about jetlag simply moving to a different time zone has worse effects than a single hour shift, yet many people do it 10s if not hundreds of times a year.
It’s so stupid to argue about this whole thing from a health perspective and using that as if its some kind of disease.
So stupid
If there were two days a year that 300 million people took a flight that gave them all jetlag simultaneously, you’d probably tell them to stop though, right?
I have no idea what you mean.
Who is telling who to stop what?
leaving work at dark is the real thing negatively effecting my health.
I want us to go in the direction Canada is going with that. It should be the same time in Washington and Oregon that it is in BC
Canada uses metric time though, I think. So, that wouldn’t work.
Nah they’re only half metricated. They use metric kilometers, but imperial hours, this creates the uniquely Canadian variant of kph
Us law doesn’t allow for that. Washington and oreagon could go year round standard time anytime they feel like it.
There’s a lot of things that I don’t like about Arizona but the abolishment of moving to and from DST has been such a great thing to have.
My friends dad died of a heart attack like 2 days we sprang forward for daylight savings time. Apparently there is a statistical correlation with increased heart attacks during this time likely due to the lost hour of sleep. I’m sure he would have eventually died of a heart attack because of his lifestyle, but I’m quite convinced it was a part of what caused it to happen on that day.
Oh my state passed a law abolishing it but the federal government stopped it. You want to know why? You want to know the stupid reason why the federal government won’t abolish daylight savings? Because polling indicates that half of the people want it gone forever and everybody else wants it there forever.
They literally can’t decide whether to always have the clock one way or the other, so we get to split the difference. I don’t fucking care. Just pick one and stick with it. Everybody has electric lights anyway, it’s the 21st century, we need to move on from this 1700s bullshit.
Counterpoint: the people who want it there forever should just be told that’s what we’re doing, they’ll be back to licking windows before they realize the difference.
I’d settle for the half hour
Exactly, most of us don’t care but there are jobs where it matters, so go with what’s best for them. Construction maybe? Either way, we don’t need majority opinion here.
Then change the hours of the jobs, not the clocks.
That fucks with everything else though, eg childcare.
Today has been the absolute worst. Daylight savings shift coinciding with my job becoming absolute trash and my idiotic self doing a Sunday funday yesterday.
Daylight Saving Time (not Savings). Most people get this wrong and I’m not sure why.
Who give a shits?
Just changing it to noun form, you have a savings account not saving account. Coupons bring you savings on purchases.
We pretty much just use the word saving for computer files, healthcare when saving a life, and fictional heroes. I guess most people don’t think of it as an action to save daylight.
Intentionally, to bother people who are persnicks about it
I do that alot.
OK hear me out.
I’m also apart of the annoyance community.
Pedants, not persnicks.
No, persnicks. You know how you’re behaving.
We should just turn back the clocks twice a year so we never have to lose an hour of sleep.
Call for you, Based Department on line 1
Who could be for keeping that around?
some people (not me) complain about the sun going down at 4pm.
Me, I do - but I also don’t think we should switch back and forth; just keep DST. Who the fuck cares if it’s dark at 5:30am, we are meant to be asleep at that time
Well that was a non article.
Committing to standard time has health benefits and allows us to end the biannual tug of war between our biological and alarm clocks,” said AMA Trustee Alexander Ding, M.D., M.A, MBA.
So are they saying committing to standard time, or simply committing to a single time?
If they are saying Standard is better that Daylight Savings, then they are complete morons. And it isnt because I like one over the other. The fact is IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. Just pick one.
Daylight is constantly changing, depending on what latitude you are in. In the northern hemisphere millions of people will gain over an hour of daylight this month alone. Your rhythms are effected by people fucking with the clock, and that is it.
Standard is better than advanced, which is better than switching.
people hate DST?(tbh i live in a country where we dont use DST)
Every time the time switches there’s a spike in car accidents, heart attacks, etc. Also, time should just be constant imo, arbitrarily shifting it an hour twice a year seems stupid to me.
Everybody loses an hour of sleep in the spring which results in a statistical spike in hospital admittance for heart problems and car accidents.
Okay ty
Yeah i’m not trusting American anything at this moment.
Some traditions are simply stupid and should be discarded.
This is one example.
You know they understand parents. Also it messes with my sleep
