Science Says: How daylight
saving time affects health
Associated Press,
by
Lindsey Tanner
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
11/2/2019 10:50:21 PM
Office workers bemoan driving home in the dark. Night owls relish the chance to sleep in. As clocks tick toward the end of daylight saving time, many sleep scientists and circadian biologists are pushing for a permanent ban because of potential ill effects on human health. (Snip) Research shows the springtime start of daylight saving time may be more harmful, linking it with more car accidents, heart attacks in vulnerable people and other health problems that may persist throughout the time change.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stevendm 11/2/2019 11:02:56 PM (No. 225601)
I am shocked. The AP is actually right about something.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Shells 11/2/2019 11:08:37 PM (No. 225603)
I can tell you without question that tonight is the happiest night of the year for me. I’m a night owl, and tomorrow I will finally feel normal again, at least for a few months.
When we spring forward in March my mind and body freak out. It is not my imagination. I loathe daylight savings.
Keep your grubby paws off my clock.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/2/2019 11:08:50 PM (No. 225604)
I like it. I would rather have light late in the day than in the early morning…
Every year we have these articles posted. Regular as clockwork. The AP must have a tickler file….
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 11/2/2019 11:10:54 PM (No. 225605)
PS. The body’s clock manages to adjust. If it didn’t, no one would ever travel outside his home time zone.
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It may be popular in wartime, but very mixed revues afterwards in our Country. Ironically, it seems to have to do with energy (oil) conservation, and since we are swimming" in it now, might be the time to stop this thing that messes with our "heads".
"Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the USA"
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/daylight-saving-usa.html
"Daylight Saving Time"
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
smcchk 11/2/2019 11:57:09 PM (No. 225615)
I love the long summer evenings. Not being an early riser, the later the sunshine, the better.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chance_232 11/3/2019 12:20:27 AM (No. 225625)
For the next couple of months, the only time I see my home in the daylight is on weekends. Standard time.....blech
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kate318 11/3/2019 12:21:33 AM (No. 225626)
I despise Daylight Saving Time. Please get rid of it. The artificiality of it is just too weird.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 11/3/2019 12:33:47 AM (No. 225634)
No one likes the twice-yearly change. The only reason we have not gotten rid of it is because half the people want to permanently spring forward, the other half want to permanently fall back. I have a solution. The last time we changed the transition date, we did it for the trick or treaters. More candy sales, fewer children getting run over. I propose that we consider the shopping season coming up. If we move the change after that, there will be more gift sales and fewer people getting run over while shopping. We don't want it to coincide with New Years, because that would really be a mess, so I propose we move the change date to February 1. If we do that, the time between spring forward and fall back will be a month. We should let that happen once. Everyone will realize how truly stupid it is and the next year the change will be abolished completely.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 11/3/2019 12:47:25 AM (No. 225644)
I say keep the present system.
Year-round Daylight Savings Time results in small schoolchildren out waiting for their bus in the pre-dawn darkness in the middle of winter, the coldest hours of the year. I know, I was in school when they tried year-round DST in the early 1970's.
Later in the year, Standard Time results in school kids and working adults wasting an hour of daylight every morning. If they could go to school, or go to work, then they could get off an hour earlier and have an extra hour of daylight in the after-work free time so they could do more activities.
The present system, although imperfect, has the schoolkids and the 'day shift' workers getting out the door and on their way reasonably soon after the sun comes up both in the winter and the summer. In the short winter days, the 'day workers' get home after dark. That's life, guys, put on your big-boy pants (or ladies, your big-girl panties) and deal with it.
In the summer, enjoy the long daylight evening hours after you get off work.
It's not perfect, but it's better than the alternatives.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2019 1:02:39 AM (No. 225673)
It is AP, I don't believe it, so won't bother.
I actually LIKE Daylight Savings time, love having the extra time in the evenings in the summer.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2 11/3/2019 1:34:37 AM (No. 225690)
Science says... Are these the same morons who tell you something you eat or drink is bad for you one week and then the next tell you it's good for you? Those science morons?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Harlowe 11/3/2019 1:53:52 AM (No. 225664)
How sad to see some poster comments being dismissive of people who, for health reasons, would like to have Standard Time made permanent, especially since most of the comments reveal their personal pleasures of more daylight hours. School children most certainly are of concern; however, serious efforts are made for their safety regardless of light, darkness, and weather. The disregard for people whose health is more at risk when impacted by Daylight Savings Time is clearly inconsequential by their standards, to the point of telling sufferers “that’s life and to put on their big-boy or big-girl panties and deal with it.”
#4- Respectfully, but profoundly disagree that the body adjusts due to personal experience with heart and blood sugar problems. Opinion is not the same as conclusions drawn by researchers who have studied the ill effects and concluded that Standard Time is in the best interests for human health.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 11/3/2019 2:07:20 AM (No. 225704)
Daylight Savings Time is stupid and unnecessary. The days always lengthen NATURALLY as summer arrives, anyway. And, to add insult to injury, Congress expanded it on both ends a few years back...that was the final straw as far as I was concerned!
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If this is the worst thing you have to worry about, G-d bless you. It is what it is.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 11/3/2019 2:49:00 AM (No. 225720)
Just more of politicians wanting to control you...what you eat, how you sleep, how you drive, health care, what size cola you drink, and ad infinitum...standard time worked well for people for thousands of years, until the politicos got their hands on it..
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lakerman1 11/3/2019 5:19:59 AM (No. 225767)
Here is a silly little tidbit.
#2 son was born on April 26, 1970, at 2:14 AM. But that was the day clocks were set forward, from 2 AM to 3 AM.
I tell my son he doesn't exist, because of daylight savings time.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
franq 11/3/2019 7:29:12 AM (No. 225830)
Pop more Ambien.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Harlowe 11/3/2019 10:44:46 AM (No. 226021)
#19, et al- Reality Check: People crossing time zones, sleep overnight, work the next day, come home, sleep, work the next day in their home time zone, doesn’t affect them adversely. Of course not, it’s an overnight. Daylight Savings Time in the USA begins the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November—eight months. Overnight or a few weeks compared to eight months of disruption to the body’s clock, God-given clock, is a significant difference.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2019 11:08:38 AM (No. 226042)
Much ado about nothing, or at least very, very little.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 11/3/2019 12:23:46 PM (No. 226089)
"Science' is now the universal bludgeon used to smash all opposition to a discussion of things which are not really based on science. And the "science" used for the bludgeoning is often as fake as a three dollar bill.
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The debate between Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time has been controversial and contentious, however, for many individuals affected by Daylight Savings Time, taking advantage of federal law allowing states to remain on standard time year-round would be sincerely appreciated and a blessing as well. For many individuals, their health issues are exacerbated by Daylight Savings Time. As the researchers wrote, if wanting to improve human health, there should not be a fight against the body’s clock so it would be wise to abolish Daylight Savings Time.