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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by mushyhammer on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:48AM (#30695438)
> Your body's internal clock is actually 24 hours 11 minutes long on average

Wasn't that debunked? Just look at what happened to people who slept in a cave for a few days, they came out of it having no idea of how long they were in there, even if they were somehow conditioned by others who guessed their own time. If the body had an internal clock, their estimation would not be off by 17 days out of 40. That's some serious mismatch.

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/science/french-cave-d...

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Re:US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:07AM (#30697750)
Wasn’t aware of that study, but I do think it’s still pretty widely accepted science we have some internal timekeeping facilities. But if we indeed do not, that speaks even more to the importance of sunrise time in regulating our bodies!
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