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I don’t know why the academy says standard time is better but for health reasons it’s standard over DST.
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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has been for years been calling for a permanent switch to standard time, saying "there is ample evidence of the negative, short-term consequences of seasonal time changes."
The AASM cautioned that "making daylight saving time permanent overlooks potential health risks that can be avoided by establishing permanent standard time instead."
I don’t know why the academy says standard time is better but for health reasons it’s standard over DST.
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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has been for years been calling for a permanent switch to standard time, saying "there is ample evidence of the negative, short-term consequences of seasonal time changes."
The AASM cautioned that "making daylight saving time permanent overlooks potential health risks that can be avoided by establishing permanent standard time instead."
Why does everyone like the sun so much? It gives you cancer. And even worse - wrinkles.
Poor nutrition and environmental stressors give you these things.
The risk of sun damage is less if you go out in the early morning or later in the day around dusk. If it's dark when we drive to work then dark before we even go home, then the only time to get sun and fresh air is in the middle of the day during lunch, when the sun is most intense. You're kind of making the argument for keeping DST.
I am not sure any of the senators actually stopped and though through this.
I feel like this is something that affects everyone that no one is even aware of or even got to weigh-in on before these clowns in DC voted on it.
The reason do "not have to change clocks" is not a valid reason. Thats just lazy.
Our bodies circadian rhythm is based off our sunrise. I guess everyone is going to be sleeping in until 9am now in the winter????
Not going to have the sun rise at 4:30AM in the summer...keep summer time or keep changing clocks. Light out at 8AM-5:30PM in the winter makes much more sense than light at 4:30AM-7:30PM in the summer.
The vast majority of the complaining is due to night time conditions at 4 pm in the winter. This is what is driving all the motivation to change to DST permanently. If schools don't like the darker morning, start later. They need to start later anyways, every study shows a tired kid doesn't learn when they are forced to school so early
California actually passed a law that school will start later, based on studies showing that adolescent brains need more sleep. I would rather schools adjust their start time than all of us remain under the nightmare that is a 5pm sunset.
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