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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by watwut on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:23PM (#26416434)
Adults are sleep deprived not because of sun, but because of evening activities - games, reading internet, movies. They value a bit more entertainment or a bit more work more then sleep.

Half a year there is dark long before adults go to sleep and also dark in the morning. Sun is not preventing sleep, but people dont sleep.

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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by TimTheTinker on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @06:41PM (#26418101)
You seem to be conflating two problems. The fact that many people stay up too late entertaining themselves doesn’t change how people as a whole respond physiologically to the presence and absence of sunlight, or how that ought to factor in to policy decisions.
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Re:U.S. senators reintroduce bill to make daylight saving ti... by watwut on Thursday March 11, 2021 @01:54AM (#26421094)
The majority of year there is dark long before adults go to sleep. Adults go to sleep at same times as during summer, the dark is not making them going to sleep more.

For all practical purposes, sun is completely irrelevant to adults sleeping.

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