The idea of Daylight Saving Time is that we give up an hour of sleep in the spring, and then get it back in the fall in order to enjoy sunlight into the evening through the summer. They say we'll adjust in a few days. But it's not as simple as that. Vanderbilt neurology professor Beth Ann Malow tells us that the effects of adjusting to an earlier clock in the spring has effects that last for months.
People disagree on whether standard time or Daylight Saving Time is preferable, but we all agree that the change (which happens tonight in most of the US) is a real hassle. The physiological effects of getting up an hour earlier every day include sleep deprivation that continues through the summer as later daylight messes with our melatonin production. The effects are especially egregious in teenagers and those who live on the western edge of a time zone. Those who live on the western edge of a time zone also have an increased risk of several types of cancer. But that's just a sample of the physical effects of changing our clocks in the spring (there's hardly any downside to setting our clocks back in the fall). Read more on the effects of Daylight Saving Time at the Conversation. -via Atlas Obscura
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If your work is dependent on the daylight, then just get up earlier! Changing around the clocks is just stupid, and has always been stupid.
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The northern state of Queensland does not follow the other eastern states of Australia in having daylight saving.It is said that the Premier of the state, at the time it was proposed, thought the sun shone out of his bum, and he wasn't getting out of bed an hour earlier for anyone.
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It doesn't affect me much, since I have a hard time sleeping past 4AM as it is. Today, suddenly, I can sleep until 5! I still have to wait just as long for the sun to come up, though.
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