It's time to kill daylight savings time...

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

...because:

Daylight saving time may be killing you
Moving the clock ahead one hour this weekend for daylight saving time is saving energy for the conservation fight, but it's also leading to more depression and heart attacks, making it hazardous to your health.
...
Studies "have found that the time change interrupts sleep cycles, causing fatigue, lack of productivity and sadness," the article added. Even worse, medical studies showed that daylight saving time also can lead to death. "Other studies show that the number of heart attacks spikes in the days following the March time change, and after the November time change, the frequency of heart attacks decreases," the article reads.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daylight-saving-time-may-be-killing-you/article/2617030#!

[djg21]

1. I disagree.

It's time to move to DST year round. That too would reduce disruptions in sleep patterns, and there is no agricultural need to switch back and forth any longer given that agriculture is largely mechanized..

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. I also disagree

It's time to choose a universal time for use in all locations around the world. It would be so much simpler if, instead of being 2 o'clock in New York and 11 o'clock in LA, it was just 12 o'clock everywhere? Why are we magically attached to waking at 6 or 7 am and getting to sleep around 10 or 11?

What if everyone used UTC?
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone/utc
We on the East coast would set an alarm for 11 or 12 (or not at all maybe if not a work day) and get used to eating dinner at 12 am.

Why are we attached to the idea of being ruled in such a Pavlovian manner by an abstract concept (numbers)?
I wouldn't loose 30 seconds each way out my life whenever I fly to new time zone.
Today in Arizona the time is an hour ahead of California. Tomorrow those states will share the same time.

[B2G]

13. Because circadian rhythm

Look it up.

[kcr]

3. Yes. Just pick one time and stick with it. No more of this nonsense.

I dread it every time.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. Exactly

[alfie]

4. I am going to disagree with the last part of the quote

True story, about 35 years ago, early in my nursing career, I commented on the increased number of patients we were seeing with strokes or heart attacks. A country doctor told me, "you always have that when the sap rises and falls.

Just saying.....

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

6. In fairness...

...any increase in health problems which occur around seasonally may not be traceable directly to a single factor. Many people are more sedentary in cold weather and begin their Spring cleaning, yard prep and various other activities which they not be used to.

I just don't like the idea of an added distraction.

[hunter]

5. Hell yes.

The people who desire daylight savings time can change their own damned schedules; they can tell the boss they'll be coming in an hour earlier or later for work twice a year and leave the rest of us alone.

I hope to live in a place someday that has abandoned this freakish cultural ritual.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. I suggest Arizona

No DST there.

[sarcasmo]

9. In Michigan, golf courses spent millions lobbying to save daylight savings time.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

10. It's good to know that the annoying time shift is...

...earning money for lobbyists. I guess that's just another feature.

[sarcasmo]

12. Always follow the money.

[mulsh]

11. After this issue is resolved can we please work on reducing the Federal Election time period?

fun's fun's but starting the next presidential election at around 8:03pm on election night and continuing for the next four years is getting old.

for what it's work I vote for ending Daylight saving time nationwide.