Goodbye Daylight Time
I am not a morning person, so I always look forward to the Fall time change and dread the Spring one.
Also, my body seems to be far more attuned to the various natural signals of time than what the clock says -- so I always feel out of sync during DST.
I really wish we could get rid of it for good. It may have made sense in the Twentieth, when a lot of energy usage really was still residential and commercial lighting, and shifting activities an hour could realize significant savings. These days, the shift to LED lights means that residential and commercial lighting doesn't use nearly as much -- and the rise of 24/7 server farms, as well as more and more industrial processes running 24/7, especially if they're heavily automated, means that the time change doesn't affect the major consumers of energy.
Not to mention the growing body of evidence that DST is actually damaging to people's health. There's always a surge of heart attacks, strokes and other medical crises, as well as in accidents, right after the Spring time change, when people lose an hour of sleep and tend to drag for a week while their bodies adjust. But even that adaptation is incomplete, and there's growing evidence that most people are strongly attuned to environmental cues in regulating their diurnal cycles.
Could this be the year when we finally just leave the clocks back for good?
Also, my body seems to be far more attuned to the various natural signals of time than what the clock says -- so I always feel out of sync during DST.
I really wish we could get rid of it for good. It may have made sense in the Twentieth, when a lot of energy usage really was still residential and commercial lighting, and shifting activities an hour could realize significant savings. These days, the shift to LED lights means that residential and commercial lighting doesn't use nearly as much -- and the rise of 24/7 server farms, as well as more and more industrial processes running 24/7, especially if they're heavily automated, means that the time change doesn't affect the major consumers of energy.
Not to mention the growing body of evidence that DST is actually damaging to people's health. There's always a surge of heart attacks, strokes and other medical crises, as well as in accidents, right after the Spring time change, when people lose an hour of sleep and tend to drag for a week while their bodies adjust. But even that adaptation is incomplete, and there's growing evidence that most people are strongly attuned to environmental cues in regulating their diurnal cycles.
Could this be the year when we finally just leave the clocks back for good?