Daylight saving time not a healthy concept
By Jennifer Welsh, Business Insider
Daylight saving time is about to start, and an interesting thing that you might not realize is how such a small shift in our time can have a large impact on our body clock and our health.
These negative impacts of daylight saving time even cost us real money in lost productivity.
This is the “bad” time change, since it means we lose an hour of sleep over night.
It was enacted during World War I to decrease energy use. Benjamin Franklin first advocated for the practice in 1784 because he noticed people used candles at night and slept past dawn in the morning. By shifting time by an hour during the summer, they would burn fewer candles and not sleep through the morning sunlight.
The debate still rages as to whether this time-switch does save energy, but along the way we’ve seen signs that it has negative effects on our health and the economy.
Actually, a much healthier concept would be to leave it DST all year long.
No question that it makes more sense to have it all year long!
Who is this crazy person who wrote
this article? DST saves money, energy, keeps kids from getting hit
by cars in the afternoon, gives us more light, etc etc. Who wants it dark at 4:20pm on Dec 21st anyway?