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It’s that time to spring forward. Is everyone ready to lose that one hour of sleep next week?
No.
I once heard a sleep researcher say, if I recall correctly, that traffic accidents in the U.S. increase by 10% in the first week following the start of DST in the spring.
I am among those in the USA who want U.S. legislators to change the law so that we no longer have DST. It is super-disruptive, but not enough legislators here have the will to push the change through the House and Senate.
Even worse, DST does not follow a standard schedule among the countries that use it!
Plus, DST within the USA and U.S. territories is inconsistent!
Research shows that losing that ONE HOUR of sleep can take up to 4 days to recover.
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It was recently announced that where I live it will be the last time that we time shift. After that it will be permanent DST.
It will be interesting as the province in Canada I live in has multiple timezones within it. I’m not sure how. That will affect the part of. The province in the other zone, or if it will all homogenize to 1 time zone. We will also shift. Time I’d we. For South of the border sometimes.
I am glad to be done with it, it always throws things off.
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Daylight Saving Time also is unnatural in the sense that it causes SOLAR noon to occur about one hour after CLOCK noon, as explained here:
Along with its annual disruption of sleep, this is the other reason that I dislike Daylight Saving Time. To me, permanent DST is a mistake, and permanent Standard Time is the solution.
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More damning evidence against DST, which started yesterday here in the USA:
Put simply:
- Traffic accidents increase when DST begins.
- Traffic accidents increase when DST ends.
Lose-lose!
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@kirkmahoneyphd logically it all makes sense, BUT (and maybe I’m just brainwashed) for me, something about this time of the year signals SPRING in my brain and there is a noticeable shift. Maybe it’s because of the time change I can get more hours of daylight after work.
100% agree.
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DST is an avoidable self-inflicted wound that some governments impose on their citizenry.
DST also feels like theft, stealing an hour of sleep at one point on the calendar and not truly returning that hour several months later – not to mention the avoidable deaths and injuries.
DST should be called Daylight Stealing Time.
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It does mess with sleep definitely & I do agree, I fell for the scam 
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