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

Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by mapgrep on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:49AM (#24316081)

We have doctors telling us this mode of living is unhealthy. As parents, is our response going to be to try to veto that because it is a headache? I can handle getting sleepy an hour earlier. My kids are asleep by 9. Is it so much better for me to stay up until 11 watching tv or reading recreationally than sleep at 10?

This really isn’t much to do with school schedules, school is out hours before bedtime. Yes, it can be tight getting kids to bed after work/daycare but I’ve never adjusted that target bedtime based on DST. If I did I’d then have to get them in bed earlier when it ends.

As parents why can’t we just do in summer what we usually do in winter? Somehow we handle two changes to daylight a year but we cannot handle zero? I don’t buy it.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by giancarlostoro on Saturday August 29, 2020 @11:23AM (#24316694)

This makes me wonder if a school district can choose to swap its hours during DST accordingly and back without DST and letting parents not miss out on sleep. Of course if their jobs are still on DST then you will have those problems but if parents say their schools opening up slightly different it might force employers hands especially when chances are your bossman also has kids.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by cortesoft on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:37PM (#24317310)

So you want the entire community to agree to change hours to cancel the effect of DST instead of just agreeing to not do DST? That seems way harder!

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