This Saturday, Just Say No To The Clock-Changing Madness: It’s Pointless And Dangerous

[GURPS]

This weekend, hundreds of millions of Americans will dutifully set their clocks back one hour, convincing themselves that they’ve “gained” an hour – despite spending at least part of it resetting all their timepieces.

Americans should instead refuse to play along. Few government mandates combine such utter pointlessness and serious public health harms than the twice-a-year switch on and off Daylight Saving Time. It’s time to end the madness.

First, despite its label, “Daylight Saving Time” does not save daylight. It doesn’t even save energy. Two studies looked at energy use before and after changes in DST laws. Indiana went on daylight saving time statewide for the first time in 2006, and in 2007 when President George W. Bush’s godawful energy bill started DST three weeks earlier.

Both found no energy savings. Energy use in Indiana actually went up when it went on DST. So if switching back and forth each year doesn’t save energy, what does it do?

What is clear is that it is a real public health hazard.

This Saturday, Just Say No To The Clock-Changing Madness: It’s Pointless And Dangerous

The government-mandated ritual doesn’t save energy but does cost lives.

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[luvmygdaughters]

Cant remember where I heard it, but an American Indian said "Only a white man cuts a foot from the bottom of his blanket and sews it on the top of the blanket and he thinks he has a longer blanket.

 

[GURPS]

Congress, sleep experts at odds over permanent daylight saving time​

Most Americans set their clocks forward one hour this weekend for daylight saving time, part of the twice-yearly time shift that has been happening since the 1960s.

Some members of Congress want to put an end to the biannual time change by cementing daylight saving time year-round, while some sleep experts have lobbied for the U.S. to ditch daylight saving time in favor of permanent standard time.

A bipartisan, bicameral bill called the Sunshine Protection Act that has been routinely reintroduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) would make daylight saving time permanent, ending the biannual ritual of “springing forward” in March for daylight saving time and “falling back” in November to standard time.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Congress, sleep experts at odds over permanent daylight saving time​

Most Americans set their clocks forward one hour this weekend for daylight saving time, part of the twice-yearly time shift that has been happening since the 1960s.

Some members of Congress want to put an end to the biannual time change by cementing daylight saving time year-round, while some sleep experts have lobbied for the U.S. to ditch daylight saving time in favor of permanent standard time.

A bipartisan, bicameral bill called the Sunshine Protection Act that has been routinely reintroduced by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) would make daylight saving time permanent, ending the biannual ritual of “springing forward” in March for daylight saving time and “falling back” in November to standard time.

I would prefer Congress do their jobs and PASS A FRICKIN' BUDGET before they mess around with trivial crap like this.

 

[Hijinx]

Its just part of the changing seasons,, and no big deal.
It takes a week to get used to the new time, but like Spring it is just a thing.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

In the summer it starts to get light at 5 am on the east coast, i really don't want it to start getting light at 4am.

 

[Kyle]

In the summer it starts to get light at 5 am on the east coast, i really don't want it to start getting light at 4am.

I'm up at 3AM anyway so I'd be good with it.

 

[RoseRed]

In the summer it starts to get light at 5 am on the east coast, i really don't want it to start getting light at 4am.

Blackout curtains. They work most excellent.

 

[Kyle]

Blackout curtains. They work most excellent.

Sounds racist.

 

[BOP]

Cant remember where I heard it, but an American Indian said "Only a white man cuts a foot from the bottom of his blanket and sews it on the top of the blanket and he thinks he has a longer blanket.

Yeah, well, apparently going to work (and I could stop there) on time is YT supremacy.

 

[BOP]

Blackout curtains. They work most excellent.

I'm due for some new ones. Any recommendations?

 

[WingsOfGold]

OK 5 is now 4 and we get more daylight, leave it at that.

 

[PJay]

So thankful for Blackout curtains!