I hope everyone who wants to be on permanent DST experiences an eternity of the first day of spring forward, never rested again

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    13 hours ago

    My friends dad died of a heart attack like 2 days we sprang forward for daylight savings time. Apparently there is a statistical correlation with increased heart attacks during this time likely due to the lost hour of sleep. I’m sure he would have eventually died of a heart attack because of his lifestyle, but I’m quite convinced it was a part of what caused it to happen on that day.

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    20 hours ago

    Who makes money off of Daylight Savings Time?

    I don’t know, but I know someone is making a fortune off of it somehow and I want to know who. It’s the only explanation

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      17 hours ago

      The real question is, how can the rich make money off of changing this? As soon as someone figures that out, I’m sure it will change.

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        16 hours ago

        Whoever has a business full of hourly employees that are working during 1-3am and lose an hour of pay.

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          14 hours ago

          ughh, I lost an hour of pay working as a security guard to this kind of thinking a while back.

          “Oh, we’ll just make up for it in 6 months.”

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    leaving work at dark is the real thing negatively effecting my health.

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    23 hours ago

    God yes. I don’t even care which side of DST we land on. As long as we stop changing the damn clock.

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    21 hours ago

    Today has been the absolute worst. Daylight savings shift coinciding with my job becoming absolute trash and my idiotic self doing a Sunday funday yesterday.

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    21 hours ago

    There’s a lot of things that I don’t like about Arizona but the abolishment of moving to and from DST has been such a great thing to have.

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    20 hours ago

    Well that was a non article.

    Committing to standard time has health benefits and allows us to end the biannual tug of war between our biological and alarm clocks,” said AMA Trustee Alexander Ding, M.D., M.A, MBA.

    So are they saying committing to standard time, or simply committing to a single time?

    If they are saying Standard is better that Daylight Savings, then they are complete morons. And it isnt because I like one over the other. The fact is IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. Just pick one.

    Daylight is constantly changing, depending on what latitude you are in. In the northern hemisphere millions of people will gain over an hour of daylight this month alone. Your rhythms are effected by people fucking with the clock, and that is it.

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    22 hours ago

    It’s pretty obvious the American government doesn’t care about its citizens health. Sick citizens = more shareholder profits for their scam corporations

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      21 hours ago

      It screws corporations as well, anyone that has a database or deals with time in any way. I’d call it a huge hazard technilogically to willy nilly change the time for no reason.

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        17 hours ago

        We have been changing the time for 70+ years. Nothing about it is Willy nilly. There is a reason. The reason may invalid at this point.

        This same bullshit could be said about jetlag simply moving to a different time zone has worse effects than a single hour shift, yet many people do it 10s if not hundreds of times a year.

        It’s so stupid to argue about this whole thing from a health perspective and using that as if its some kind of disease.

        So stupid

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          12 hours ago

          If there were two days a year that 300 million people took a flight that gave them all jetlag simultaneously, you’d probably tell them to stop though, right?

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            11 hours ago

            I have no idea what you mean.

            Who is telling who to stop what?

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              I’m trying to relate the daylight savings time change back to your example of jetlag.

              I’m suggesting that, in a scenario where everyone in the US is compelled to take a plane ride that gives them all one hour’s worth of jetlag (instead of changing the clocks by one hour), you’d probably take issue with that. It’s an attempt to add some extra perspective and get you to think about your claim that it’s stupid to argue from a health perspective, and how shallow that line is thinking is.

              It doesn’t matter if it’s stupid or not, it’s reasonable to want the practice to stop.

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    1 day ago

    I want us to go in the direction Canada is going with that. It should be the same time in Washington and Oregon that it is in BC

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      13 hours ago

      Us law doesn’t allow for that. Washington and oreagon could go year round standard time anytime they feel like it.

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      1 day ago

      Canada uses metric time though, I think. So, that wouldn’t work.

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        24 hours ago

        Nah they’re only half metricated. They use metric kilometers, but imperial hours, this creates the uniquely Canadian variant of kph