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Re:Daylight Savings Time (2020) by avgcorrection on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:34AM (#28945975)
Apparently you didn’t see this article (linked in the submission article) about the downsides of permanent DST:

https://herf.medium.com/why-standard-time-is-better-e586b500...

The human body “needs” DST like diabetes needs cookies.

Re:Daylight Savings Time (2020) by throw0101a on Thursday October 21, 2021 @03:56PM (#28950046)
Quite a few folks/societies that study chronobiology and sleep rhythms have put out statements that permanent Standard Time is what we should ideally be using.

A comment of mine from a few months ago with links to various position papers, many of which are referenced in the story you linked to:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416574

The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms:

> Local and national governments around the world are currently considering the elimination of the annual switch to and from Daylight Saving Time (DST). As an international organization of scientists dedicated to studying circadian and other biological rhythms, the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) engaged experts in the field to write a Position Paper on the consequences of choosing to live on DST or Standard Time (ST). The authors take the position that, based on comparisons of large populations living in DST or ST or on western versus eastern edges of time zones, the advantages of permanent ST outweigh switching to DST annually or permanently. Four peer reviewers provided expert critiques of the initial submission, and the SRBR Executive Board approved the revised manuscript as a Position Paper to help educate the public in their evaluation of current legislative actions to end DST.

* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31170882/

* https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730419854197

World Federation of Societies for Chronobiology:

> In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently. […]

* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...

* https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2019.00944

If anyone think that these are wrong, feel free to contact the original authors.