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EccentricFan t1_jbw3cuw wrote

Reply to comment by 7hought in [OC] In the past four years, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions, awaiting approval by Congress, to make daylight saving permanent. by gridnews

There are significant health risks to the sleep disruption from changing your regular sleeping pattern. Each year in both directions, there are spikes in suicides, heart attacks, strokes, accidents including car crashes.

I'm biased, because I'm especially sensitive to disruptions to my sleep schedule, and it often takes me about three weeks each way to recover my regular rhythm, meaning the time shift is actively reducing my quality of life of 10% of each year.

And getting the best of both worlds is an overly optimistic viewpoint even without all these issues. For many people year round DST would be better, and for many others year round standard would be better.

And again, there's so much sunlight variance based on where you live, that even if it was somehow carefully crafted to "get the best of both worlds" in one place, it would be ill-suited to large swaths of the country.

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7hought t1_jbw0y2s wrote

Reply to comment by EccentricFan in [OC] In the past four years, 19 states have enacted legislation or passed resolutions, awaiting approval by Congress, to make daylight saving permanent. by gridnews

Getting the best of both worlds of Daylight Savings and Standard time seems well worth the “atrocity” and “forcing people to adjust their entire life schedule” by shifting a single hour in the middle of the night twice a year.

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