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.
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)