Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti...
by koheripbal on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:49PM
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I'm confused as to why the alignment of the clock with the sun should cause sleep deprivation, aside from the transitional period.
It does not impact when people choose to go to sleep, which is the biggest predictive factor in how much sleep they get.
Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti...
by jschulenklopper on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:12PM
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It does. Standard time is better aligned by circardian rhythm, per https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.8780
Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti...
by koheripbal on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:37PM
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This assumes people wake up at a certain time of day. ...which is entirely arbitrary.
Re:U.S. Bill H.R.69 introduced – To make daylight savings ti...
by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:49PM
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It's not arbitrary, it's based on sunlight. The sun sets our mental clocks.
This is why a lot of people advice against using screens late at night—because they contain a lot more blue light than regular household lights, and thus throw our bodies out of balance. But, those are still much smaller light sources than the sun!
I'd like to see that studied closely in light of the fact that 1 in 3 Americans suffers from chronic sleep deprivation.
And just because people have earlier schedules doesn't mean that they operate well with earlier schedules -- and because society programs us for decades to wake up earlier and to view oversleeping as sloth just asking people what their preferred sleep schedule is may bias results. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that half the people in this thread who think they really want that hour of light at the end of the day wouldn't function much better if they got more sleep in the morning.
There's also the asymmetry where people who are early risers want that extra hour of light in the evening -- at the cost of the late sleepers suffering chronic sleep deprivation and all the related health costs ("I want an extra hour of light, and you dying early of a heart attack is a small cost to pay for that").