Twice a year, millions of Americans complain and share articles about daylight "savings" time, how unpleasant, or even damaging to their health, it is, knowing full well that nobody within 6 degrees of someone who actually holds the reins will listen t...
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Twice a year, millions of Americans complain and share articles about daylight "savings" time, how unpleasant, or even damaging to their health, it is, knowing full well that nobody within 6 degrees of someone who actually holds the reins will listen to us. When do we get to get off this nauseating merry-go-round?
https://time.com/7330395/daylight-saving-time-bad-for-you-sleep/
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@hosford42
Pedro Sanchez proposed the discussion again in the EU, so, "maybe" ;)In 2019 they wanted to stop it but the issue was which time to keep? winter time or summer time? ;)
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-sanchez-restarts-push-eu-finally-end-daylight-saving-time/
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@hadon Yeah, and the indecision lets them put it off for another year. Over, and over, and over. It's the same here. I will happily take either over alternating between the two. It's the transition that is the costly part. "I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!"
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@hosford42
Well... keeping Summer time would make most people have to wake up and drive without sunlight. I don't think it would be very good to fight against seasonal infections :/ -
@hadon @hosford42 winter time means that most people have to drive back home from work with no sunlight, you just can't have both.
and one could say that it's safer to drive in the dark when you're rested and well awake rather than doing so when you're tired after a day of work (but I expect that there would be quite a lot of variability between people)
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We should just work shorter hours in the winter. This whole standardized 8 hour day thing is needlessly and arbitrarily rigid. It treats us like machines instead of human beings.
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@hosford42 @valhalla
It's true that the body asks for more sleep during winter, as if we were animals too that needed to hibernate a little ;) -
@hadon @hosford42 I think I'd still prefer 8 hours of work in the winter to having to work 12-ish hours in summer, but I guess it may be an option for somebody.
