Rafael Pérez ☀️Daylight Savings Time (DST) in the twenty-first century, yay or nay?
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Matthew Martin@rperezrosario It kills people.
7leaguebootdisk𓅽@mistersql @rperezrosario literally true. It would be better for people's health to stay on standard time year round.
@IcyPalm -> @@7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario I learned recently that it is technically true for the two days after the change but if you look at the week averages it has zero impact since the days after the two more impactful days see lower numbers than average.
And yes I'm looking for the source, couldn't find it that quick
EDIT: this might even not be true, can't find my original source and I see many scientists be angry at each other in papers.... I can't conclude that more people die or not.
David Scott Moyer
porkloin@7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario wouldn’t the same be true if we just stayed in DST permanently? I hear this a lot as an argument “for standard time” but it seems more like an argument against having a bi-annual time change, not an argument in favor of or against DST or ST
João Santos@porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario while the bi-annual change causes the most harm, permanent DST would still not be as ideal as permanent ST (source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508293122)
Henrik Pauli@jmcs @porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario I guess it really depends on the location — Iceland for example uses UTC all year round because in the summer it doesn't matter and in the winter they try to maximise sun exposure.
In a lot of places summer time makes sense in the way culture is now (nobody needs the sun to be up at 3:40 but everyone would be angry if it's down already at 20:00 (Budapest)) wouldn't suffer from summer time in winter either (more light after work/school)
Brendan Halpin@phl @jmcs @porkloin @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario My rule of thumb is that the DST practice makes sense between approx 40N and 60N. Further south (incl much of the US) daylight-length difference is too small to justify it, further north, the difference is so big 1 hr doesn't do much.
Rejkjavík is about 64°N.
Shanie MyrsTear@7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario You know, or the other way. Could just stay on DST all year round. Works great, less depression for many who critically lack vitamin D in the winter, partly because they can't get outside when the sun is up.
@shanie @mistersql @rperezrosario it encourages not getting enough sleep, you can see it in how cancer rates change across a time zone. UPDATE that seems to be incorrect based on new research https://aacrjournals.org/cancerrescommun/article/4/2/328/734099/Longitudinal-Position-and-Cancer-Risk-in-the
@7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario I was about to say "the sun still stays down for the same amount of time (somewhere around 5:30PM-7:30AM), so they can gladly still sleep the same hours" but I'm glad to hear that it wasn't the case to begin with! Thank you for verifying!!
@shanie @mistersql @rperezrosario still, ending switching would be good. https://social.jsantos.eu/@jmcs/115485023626950146
João Santos (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] while the bi-annual change causes the most harm, permanent DST would still not be as ideal as permanent ST (source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508293122)
@shanie @mistersql @rperezrosario personally, I think we should all be on International Atomic Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time no time zones, no leap seconds. Have a calendar standard for location specific solar time, so you can have a meeting at noon, or be woken 15 minutes before dawn for a run.
@shanie @7leaguebootdisk @mistersql @rperezrosario or split the difference. Move all clocks 1/2 hour and stop.