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Originally Posted by Slava
OK, but how does that actually impact people? Like for me, that part of the day isn't actually useful for things outside anyway. Whether I drive to the office in the dark is basically irrelevant. And the opposite point is that you have that many more days with the hour of sunlight at the useful part of your day.
I also just personally hate the time change. I don't even care about the kids...I get up and go to the gym before work. When we fall back, I guess I gain an hour of sleep, and that's great. When we spring forward though, it's terrible. Statistically there are more accidents that Monday morning, likely because people are more tired from that hour change. And why? So it's light out at 8:10am for more days? It's utterly pointless.
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I think its more about your internal bio-clock than anything. Your body's clock runs based on sunlight, so forcing your body to start the day in the dark for more days than absolutely necessary is not good long term. That's why experts say we should get rid of DST, to avoid messing with the bio-clock in the first place, but to go to standard time all the time. There is a reason we are in the time zone we are in.