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[austin_tycho]

Hell YES...

Obama might get rid of daylight saving time

I hate the practice. There's no good reason for it; it's needlessly disruptive, and in addition to not saving energy, I've also seen that the sleep deprivation caused by the springing forward is responsible for a not insignificant number of traffic accidents and such. I hope it gets canned.

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[fulguritus.livejournal.com]

I hope he does get rid of it. It's kind of exciting to think about.

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

Remember the old margarine commercial ("It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!")? It's true : the continual cyclic disruption of the clock time seriously screws up our circadian rhythms... which disrupts sleep, endocrine & immune functions for months. The effect gets worse as we get older and more sensitive to these shifts.

We'd be better off dealing w/ SAD straightforwardly & scrapping the "economic benefit" & allow our bodies to tune themselves to the daily shifts and changes the way they evolved / were designed to / just plain DO, okay?

We'll be healthier, we'll be saner, we'll be happier - and don't we just need a lot of that?

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

The silly thing is that when this would most help with SAD is in the winter, when we *don't* do it. I've heard some people saying just make DST never end, so there is no jumping forward and back. I would accept that if I had to; it's certainly better than what we're doing now.

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

Exactly - it's not the set-point (within reason) - it's the jerking back-and-forth.

That's what makes it bad for us: by the time we've really adapeted to the last change, we change again. And then we change back, before we've finished getting settled again.

This affects all kinds of metabolic, glandular, psychic and hormonal systems, messes with responses, triggers get mis-set. Really. We don't need to do it to ourselves.

Not good. Definitely, not good.

But no-one listen to Zathras, oh no no no....

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT!!!

[scorpionis.livejournal.com]

Oh praise Buddha, please let him do this.

[in-quinecorners.livejournal.com]

I know a couple of dumbasses who prefer how time works during DST (i.e. they prefer the sun rising and setting later), so we might have to argue with them a bit, but I don't know ANYONE who doesn't hate the changing back and forth every year. Let's do this.