BrikoXRepublican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent
criitzOne thing not mentioned in this article is that the bill that was passed in the senate would make DST permanent, while most doctors and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommend abolishing DST and making Standard Time permanent.
Personally I hope they do abolish the clock switching, but I hope they revise that bill to align with the medical community’s position.
Not to mention how it would basically break the universal time zone system
SpitzspotCompromise and make DST permanent but 30 minutes ahead.
FartsWithAnAccentFucking do it already, damn!
ClopClopMcFuckwadYeah, I live in Canada, and our local government passed a law in 2018 saying we would go to permanent daylight time, but then backed down because the west coast of USA wouldn’t do it too.
I don’t care whether they remove it or make it permanent so long as they just fucking pick one and stick to it.
I want them to keep it alternating and nt stick to it.
Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn’t that much is still worth the inconvenience.
Also, 2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)
Basically more light is good
Sterile_Technique“transition periods in daylight saving time regulations are linked to a rise in total mortality and should be avoided in the interest of general well-being.”
- National Library of Medicine
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084938/
“Spring DST transition acutely increases fatal traffic accident risk by 6% in the US”
- A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk
www.cell.com/…/S0960-9822(19)31678-1?
“sleep disruptions during the Spring transition cause suicide rates to rise by 6.25 percent and all DoD to increase by 6.59 percent.”
- Saving Light, Losing Lives: How Daylight Saving Time Impacts Deaths of Despair
gc.cuny.edu/…/Saving-Light%2C-Losing-Lives-How-Da…
So, there’s data supporting DST costing lives, saving lives, and not having any impact either way. I cherry-picked a few to illustrate the former, which paired with yours make for a more complete picture.
Overall, estimates on the lives lost side appear to be numerically higher; so taking ALL of it at face value, getting rid of DST would save more lives.
I’d vote to chop it if saving lives is your chief concern.
Daylight Saving Time Transitions: Impact on Total Mortality
In Europe and many countries worldwide, a half-yearly changing time scheme has been adopted with the aim of optimizing the use of natural daylight during working hours and saving energy. Because the expected net economic benefit was not achieved, the ...
“As funny as this sounds, several years ago, I was walking in a Veterans Day parade, and a veteran … that was watching the parade, an older gentleman, gets up from his lawn chair – he actually walks into the parade route, shook my hand and said: ‘Before I die, would you end daylight savings time?’” Lankford recounted.
“He said: ‘I hate it. I’m in my 80s. I want you to get rid of daylight savings time before I die.’”
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Lankford’s bill would eliminate the time change by making daylight savings time apply year-round in the US.
So basically Lankford is bragging that he wants to do exactly the opposite of this (probably fictional) constituent actually wants. They don’t grow 'em too smart in Oklahoma.
Republicans LOVE to use vets as a prop when it’s convenient.
They’ll also stab vets in the back if they’re convinced doing so would own a lib or two - see: republicans block PACT act, denying healthcare to veterans in an effort to spite the blue team.