B.C.'s daylight-time decision: 'Scientifically a bad idea,' says key researcher

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bc-daylight-saving-health-concerns-9.7114947

by LostMyLogin • 5 months ago

3 5 5 months ago

Full headline: 'Scientifically not a good idea,' says researcher whose work informed B.C.'s daylight-time decision. Altered for space.

davydm• 5 months ago

and yet, i remember reading not too long ago about all the people who wanted to abolish dst because it's a really crap experience and there wasn't data to show it would be a bad idea - so i'm wondering: is this new data, or just the old "data" that wasn't enough to convince all the people who wanted to kill dst?

dlcarrier2• 5 months ago

There's been data since at least 2017 showing that getting up before sunrise is a bad idea: https://aacrjournals.org/cebp/article/26/8/1306/283057/Longi...

PaulHoule• 5 months ago

They have to stop changing the clock and then people can decide for themselves when they want to go to bed.

I was so hopeful when there was a bipartisan consensus in the US that we should stop changing the clock, like, for once Congress might be able to change something. We ran into the predictable problem though that we could never get people to agree on which phase to make permanent.

dlcarrier2• 5 months ago

Night owls and early birds are kind of like introverts and extroverts. In general, introverts like being around other introverts, but are okay with others being extroverts, but extroverts think something is inherently wrong with everyone that is an introvert, and that they should be fixed.

To the same effect, in general, night owls like working on a night owls schedule, but are okay with early birds doing their thing, but early birds think something is inherently wrong with everyone that is a night owl, and that they should be fixed.

I swear the only daylight savings time has stuck around as long as it has is that early birds consider the major biennial disruption a worthwhile compromise over letting night owls be.

B.C.'s daylight-time decision: 'Scientifically a bad idea,' says key researcher

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