House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

[PandaBear]

It's hard to believe that people get so fired up about this it's almost if they've never taken a trip in their lives that went one time zone east or one time zone west which is effectively the same thing and your body deals with it in about a day. Pushing the daylight around to optimize morning sun just seems to make sense to me but I certainly would deal with it if we didn't have it. Going to DSL all year long it's going to really screw over some people in the winter. Folks think this stuff sounds great until they realize that it's not going to be light till like 8:30 in the morning in some areas to get an extra hour or whatever in the evening of time you don't care about because it's cold out...but hey you don't have to change your clocks so winning. People act like this is some major life trauma.

I can see people getting upset if they miss something on the forward or backward change back before we have smart phone and auto time adjustment.

Today your smart phone will just change your time for you and I think only ONE TIME Apple forgot to keep track of that and everyone in the DST miss an alarm in the world, just ONE time.

Ever since 2016 or so I have never missed anything or feel really bad because of DST change. I mean it is like you have an early flight to catch and you have to wake up one hour early. Your body will get used to it in a week even if you are flying to the other side of the world 12 hours away. 1 hr probably only need 1 day to adjust for most people. It is like staying up late for a movie the night before.

 

[PandaBear]

Most households don't have children...

You mean most households don't have adults right?

 

[TiGeo]

I can see people getting upset if they miss something on the forward or backward change back before we have smart phone and auto time adjustment.

Today your smart phone will just change your time for you and I think only ONE TIME Apple forgot to keep track of that and everyone in the DST miss an alarm in the world, just ONE time.

Ever since 2016 or so I have never missed anything or feel really bad because of DST change. I mean it is like you have an early flight to catch and you have to wake up one hour early. Your body will get used to it in a week even if you are flying to the other side of the world 12 hours away. 1 hr probably only need 1 day to adjust for most people. It is like staying up late for a movie the night before.

That's where I am on this and why I struggle to understand how the clock changing has so much impact past a day or so for folks with both changes (spring is worse [like traveling east] than fall [like traveling west]). Do folks get really worked up about the highlighted bits in your post above so that they never do this for fear of a heart attack, traffic accidents, etc.?

I did a bit of homework per someone's recommedno and yes there are data/studies to support that this creates some health issues - got it. Also read that if we went to year around DST so the longer dark in winter mornings that will also create more safety issues like traffic accidents and the like (this is where the school children concerns come in as well). The energy saving bit..ok, probably not critical now as it may have been. Basically standard time fits more with the human circadian rhythm for many areas of the world like a large chunk of the lower 48 in the US. DST basically comes down to folks liking longer daylight hours in the summer to do stuff and the switch back for winter so you don't have to wait until 9am for it to get light in many areas which I believe would be far more disruptive to many.