American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by _ph_ on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:08AM (#24314794)

That is not a very practical thing as the time of sunrise changes every day. However, there used to be a very practical solution, to center the clock at noon, which drifts only a few minutes over the year. The daytime then will be symmetrically around the noon point, 6am sunrise means 6pm sunset. Isn't that neat?

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by m463 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:50AM (#24315440)

I think time is fundamentally analog, and our bodies are analog too in the sense that we adapt and adjust to the rising sun and bright sunlight. Clocks are wondeful, but I kind of wonder if it fits our analog round-peg bodies into square holes.

I think it would be interesting to embrace the analog.

instead of an hour for a meeting, have a amount of time to talk about something, while people have attention with biological support.

Instead of going to bed at the same time, sort of predict when your body will get tired and have a tapering of the awake portion of your time.

And matching thinking to alertness, and relaxing to its waning might be productive and pleasurable.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by CydeWeys on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:47AM (#24316067)

> However, there used to be a very practical solution, to center the clock at noon, which drifts only a few minutes over the year.

Noon drifts by just over 30 minutes throughout the year, not just a few minutes.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by _ph_ on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:25AM (#24331197)

The difference of sun to the noon is at maximum 16m 33s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time)

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by CydeWeys on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:36PM (#24334552)

You need to multiply by 2 because it's drifting both before and afterwards, hence a little over 30 minutes of total drift.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by _ph_ on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:59AM (#24340432)

For the question of the symmetry, only the difference to the noon point is relevant.

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