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Originally Posted by #-3
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...s-your-health/
I believe the current data say that if we are to go to 1 time year round, we should prefer winter time. Earlier sunset in general is better for sleep, cognitive outcomes, and health.
I assume we are voting for the opposite, but I voted yes without looking into it at all because I support dumping the time changes, they make sense when you are relying on sunlight for work, and you are swinging between 10 and 14 hours of sunlight. But with LEDs and swings between 7 and 19 hours of light, day light savings really isn't all that meaningful, any what you set it we will be using lots of artificial light in the winter, and we will be fighting with our kids to go to sleep on bright summer nights.
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Honestly, switching to pure winter (standard time) is just playing to peoples recency bias. It’s inconceivable to me that people would prefer an hour of daylight in June or July at 4:30am as opposed to the end of the day. In mid-summer people are walking/biking/hiking/golfing and a lot of other activities in our long evenings. Those are fantastic nights and not many people would swap that time for 5am and the same activities. That’s not to mention a cocktail on a patio, or things like that.
And as far as the short days and amount of sunlight, I’m beginning to wonder who the experts are here. It’s the same amount of sunlight, first and foremost. The whole circadian rhythm point is questionable to me. No one is going to be at 5pm, and we’re all capable of turning on lights from December through April to cope with those dark evenings. The reality is that hour of daylight is far more useful later in the day than it is in the morning, for the vast majority of people 5/7 days a week during the winter. And in the summer, it’s not even close.