Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time...
by throw0101a on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @03:54PM
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> The question is whether you want more of it in the morning or the evening, and there isn't a "correct" answer there.
The folks at various chronobiology and sleep study societies say otherwise:
> The choice of DST is political and therefore can be changed. If we want to improve human health, we should not fight against our body clock, and therefore, we should abandon DST and return to Standard Time (which is when the sun clock time most closely matches the social clock time) throughout the year. This solution would fix both the acute and the chronic problems of DST. We therefore strongly support removing DST changes or removing permanent DST and having governing organizations choose permanent Standard Time for the health and safety of their citizens.
The folks at various chronobiology and sleep study societies say otherwise:
> The choice of DST is political and therefore can be changed. If we want to improve human health, we should not fight against our body clock, and therefore, we should abandon DST and return to Standard Time (which is when the sun clock time most closely matches the social clock time) throughout the year. This solution would fix both the acute and the chronic problems of DST. We therefore strongly support removing DST changes or removing permanent DST and having governing organizations choose permanent Standard Time for the health and safety of their citizens.
* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...
Lots of footnotes here in this paper if you want to get into the details:
* https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.0094...
The position papers of various societies:
* https://srbr.org/advocacy/daylight-saving-time-presskit/
* https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/dq2nv3/
* http://www.chronobiology.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/JBR-D...
* https://www.chronobiology.com/impact-daylight-saving-time-ci...
* https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commiss...
There seems to be a consensus on what's "best", and it doesn't appear to by Year-round DST.
I'd be curious to know what hearings, if any, were held on this topic, and with whom.