Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ...
by benrbray on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:41AM
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In my opinion this just hurts everyone, and requires us to make drastic changes to our work culture. Permanent DST is a simple band-aid fix that does a lot of good while we think carefully about solving the hard problems.
Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ...
by Ericson2314 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @10:29AM
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I do admit it could be a situation like how monetary policy is easier to do gracefully than across-the-board price controls.
Keynesian time here we come!
I used to be pro "permanent summer time". But beyond the practical arguments above, there is a another reason.
First of all, let's be clear that the the number is arbitrary if there are no transitions.
It is stupid (as far as I can tell) that we waste the sunlight in the morning, getting more darkness at night. Switching to permanent summer time without tackling the underlying causes why are schedule shift backwards would seem to beget the same problem over again. Switching to winter time however might force us to confront the issue head on.
e.g. Maybe we need to drastically curtail light pollution and require that consumer devises have opt-out red shift (if there is more evidence for it) and curfew modes.