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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by mapgrep on Saturday August 29, 2020 @09:57AM (#24316129)
> It's all just conventions anyway. Why does it matter if solar noon doesn't match with wallclock noon?

Why does this thread exist? Because some scientists/doctors studied this very question and concluded that there are negative health and safety implications to continuing to do what we are doing. Conventions have consequences.

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Re:American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination ... by bobthepanda on Sunday August 30, 2020 @02:45PM (#24324931)
The problem is with the change and transition, not the fact that solar time doesn't inherently match wallclock time.

Even the actual position statement doesn't have a strong argument for which one should be the permanent time, and is worded as a hunch:

> Although chronic effects of remaining in daylight saving time year-round have not been well studied, daylight saving time is less aligned with human circadian biology — which ... could result in circadian misalignment

https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780 (emphasis mine)

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