Year-round daylight saving time could affect health, education, and more

Changing time twice a year is bad for our health. Dad is confused enough.

Just leave it the same all year, whether standard or daylight savings time.

DST forever! I love the extra hour of daylight in the evening, despite the time difference makes me 1 hour older. :shocked:

Get up later

So, The "Academy of Sleep Medicine" speaks for all of medicine?

This is just one article. There must be plenty more. You can look it up if you like.

I did. And I didn't find much...

I like Daylight Savings Time, like it getting darker later since I’m a Night Owl.

You forgot "barefoot"
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I was sitting next to 2 couples at dinner last night, listening to them discuss DST...

The amount of misinformation spewing from this one lady was staggering. She was pontificating about "biorhythms" and how important they are and that they never change... I guess she didn't realize that people move all the time. Across the country, across the globe, and that their biorhythms adjust to their new environment...

She then went on to talk about how dogs have no memory, that they just "live in the moment"...

Her dinner companions just sat there, nodding in agreement...

Half way thru dinner, my eye was twitching, and my tongue was bleeding from me biting it... :icon_wink:

I’m worried that permanent DST would take away activity availability during the high season.

Let’s start with golf.

Right now the first tee time is pretty much at sunrise. If sunrise is 7:30 the first tee time is 7:30. If sunrise is 8:20, like it would be in January if we kept DST year round, the first tee time is 50 minutes later. Happy hour still starts at 5pm. We just lose those 6 morning tee times on every course every day. For those counting, that’s 240 executive course tee times lost per day.

Now let’s move on to Pickleball. Open play pickle ball is from sunrise to 10am. As far as I can tell this is when the serious advanced pickleballers play. At 10am courts start being designated by level so beginner or advanced beginner can find their folks. Some courts are reserved for leagues starting at 10am. So year round DST will shorten open play to 90 minutes in the high season.

DST doesn’t add more daylight, it just steals it from the morning and adds it to the evening. If you like evening activities it helps. If you like morning outdoor activities it takes away an hour.

Agree…

Actually open play pickleball starts at 8 to 10 am and courts are closed until 7am do to the noise in certain areas.

I’m retired so time or time changes really don’t affect me.

I'm not a morning person, so I much prefer to go to year around DST. I think the overall preference, really boils down to whether someone is a morning or night person.

DST, for me.