Thoughts on Daylight Saving Time...

[BetteDavisEyes]

I'm in favor of more daylight and less early dark nights. It drives me crazy every year. Moo.

My preference, as well. During the winter when the sun isn't out much, it gets dark here around 4:00PM. We need lights on in the house, and I feel like getting ready for bed just because it's dark

 

[dalsglen]

My preference, as well. During the winter when the sun isn't out much, it gets dark here around 4:00PM. We need lights on in the house, and I feel like getting ready for bed just because it's dark

Same here in Scotland. Dark when the kids go to school, and dark just after they get home. which means it's jammies time then

It's only just got pitch black in the last 30 mins (738pm) and it's magical. Can't wait for the end of the month to get more light.

 

[Catmommy]

Health experts say making daylight saving time permanent is a terrible idea. Permanent standard time, on the other hand ... (msn.com)

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Year-round daylight saving time could affect health, education, and more (nbcnews.com)

For the times they are a-changin’: The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make daylight saving time the 12-month norm in the U.S.

Children might start going to school in darkness next year in exchange for more sun later in the day, while their parents commute home from work with the benefit of light.

Those would be among the impacts of ditching standard time and adopting year-round daylight saving time, a change in legislation the Senate passed this week with virtually no opposition.

If the Sunshine Protection Act, as written, were to gain House approval and President Joe Biden's signature, Americans would fall back this November, spring forward in March 2023 and then never change their clocks again...

 

[meanmaryjean]

Great evidence for remaining on Standard Time year-round. Scientists and sleep specialists are on the Standard team.
SAVE STANDARD TIME

 

[Satchie]

Great evidence for remaining on Standard Time year-round. Scientists and sleep specialists are on the Standard team.
SAVE STANDARD TIME

I wonder if permanent DST will increase instances of seasonal depression and overall winter circadian rhythm sleep disorders.

Just in my own experience, I suffered from an unbalanced winter circadian rhythm for years without knowing it (how can you know if it's all you know), causing severe grogginess when I went to school and work in winter mornings. It wasn't until I started using a medical morning light that it magically cleared up.

I ate earlier in the evening, was sleepy and went to bed earlier, slept more deeply, and was therefore alert early in the morning. I realized how much impact this sleep disorder had on my life and health, including my moods, relationships with others and important life decisions.

IMO, the natural body rhythms are set by the amount of bright light we get in the morning, before noon, and tend to be negatively affected by bright light received in the late afternoon and evening.

There's already such an epidemic of anxiety, depression and insomnia, I can see why scientists are concerned this will only make it worse.

JMO

 

[Spartygirl]

Year-round daylight saving time could affect health, education, and more (nbcnews.com)

For the times they are a-changin’: The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make daylight saving time the 12-month norm in the U.S.

Children might start going to school in darkness next year in exchange for more sun later in the day, while their parents commute home from work with the benefit of light.

Those would be among the impacts of ditching standard time and adopting year-round daylight saving time, a change in legislation the Senate passed this week with virtually no opposition.

If the Sunshine Protection Act, as written, were to gain House approval and President Joe Biden's signature, Americans would fall back this November, spring forward in March 2023 and then never change their clocks again...

BBM- that works wonderfully for me !!!

I really do NOT like winter anyway and then to have it dark going to work and then when I am leaving work also-- Bah Humbug

Bring on Longer, Sunny days !!!

 

[Satchie]

BBM- that works wonderfully for me !!!

I really do NOT like winter anyway and then to have it dark going to work and then when I am leaving work also-- Bah Humbug

Bring on Longer, Sunny days !!!

Yes, the problem is living so far from the equator, no amount of tinkering with clocks changes that.

It's interesting that most people will happily endure jet lag of far more than an hour's time difference, there and back, to go to a better climate for only a week. No complaints about having to change their clocks for a trip to Hawaii...

 

[dalsglen]

Yes, the problem is living so far from the equator, no amount of tinkering with clocks changes that.

It's interesting that most people will happily endure jet lag of far more than an hour's time difference, there and back, to go to a better climate for only a week. No complaints about having to change their clocks for a trip to Hawaii...

ha I would NEVER complain about being warm.

 

[Freesert]

Where I live this will mean it’s dark not twilight but dark within 10 minutes of picking the kids up from school for several weeks in December and they will be going to school in the dark. For the northern latitudes that’s only 6-7 hours of light. So a majority of the population live in areas when the earliest it gets dark it’s 4ish pm on these days. So the people in Maine larger portion of Michigan and all the Canadian border states will go about 2 weeks seeing nothing but dark 18 hours a day. DST wasn’t really for all states it was an annoyance to probably 90% of the population but for the rest of us 10% this is going to be a very bad change. We in the northern states already have a higher incident of seasonal effective disorder and vitamin D issues. This is just going to be a harder longer winter for the us northerners.

 

[mickey2942]

Daylight savings here means that it is light until 10pm or later in the summer. So, "Fall back" and leave it alone.

 

[meanmaryjean]

You cannot change biology. PermaDST is driven by the golf and amusement industries. Not by science, sleep specialists and medical evidence.

I was in college when year-round DST was tried. It was an unmitigated disaster.

 

[mickey2942]

Last weekend DST caught up with me. I was so exhausted, a nap for 3 hours.

 

[Catmommy]

DST, to me, is misleading because the days are getting longer anyways. Saying the time changed doesn't change that fact; days are longer with more sunlight in the spring and summer and shorter with less sunlight in the fall and winter. It happens whether we "adjust" our clocks or not.
So why do it? Follow the money, sleuthers, always follow the money. Does anybody really care if you get an extra hour of sunshine? They do if it means they get another one of your dollars.
They gonna do what they want to do when it comes to declaring permanent DST or else they'd ask us all to vote on it. Why do you suppose they don't?

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

What would year-round daylight saving mean for Michigan? (detroitnews.com)

A proposal in Congress to adopt year-round daylight saving time would mean later sunrises for much of the year in Michigan: Four months of the sun not coming up until after 8 a.m. in Detroit, and about five months of that in places like Grand Rapids and Marquette.

And while the sun would never set before 6 p.m., the sun wouldn’t rise until 9 a.m. or later in Lansing and Ludington for most of December and January, leaving workers and students commuting through colder, darker mornings...

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Clocks turned back this weekend, but the future of daylight saving time is far from settled

The Sunshine Protection Act, which the Senate passed in March, has stalled in the House. Sleep experts, meanwhile, support a switch to standard time.

www.nbcnews.com

At 2 a.m. ET on Sunday, clocks in the U.S. turned back one hour as daylight saving time ended, marking the beginning of winter's dark evenings.

The change often renews the longstanding debate about the tradition. In March, the Senate weighed in, unanimously voting in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent year-round for all states but Hawaii and most of Arizona, which would continue to observe year-round standard time. But the bill has stalled in the House.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who introduced the act, suggested it would reduce crime, encourage kids to play outside and lower the risk of heart attacks and car accidents.

"There’s some strong science behind it that is now showing and making people aware of the harm that clock-switching has," Rubio said on the Senate floor in March...

 

[meanmaryjean]

Here's a whole bunch of science that supports permanent STANDARD time. SAVE STANDARD TIME

Marco Rubio's bill is an homage to the special interests of golf and amusement parks. NOT to safety and well-being.
I was in college when year-round DST was tried in the 70s. Eight children lost their lives a s direct result of it- and it was an unmitigated disaster.

 

[Catmommy]

SAVE STANDARD TIME!

 

[meanmaryjean]

AASM opposes permanent daylight saving time bill

The AASM opposes the Sunshine Protection Act (S. 623), which would establish permanent daylight saving time in the U.S. in November 2023.

aasm.org

 

[MimosaMornings]

I dread this time of year because our work schedule changes due to the daylight time change. The sunset will now occur at 5pm so an earlier start time in the mornings.
5am alarm set. Still get to bed at same time though lol