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on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:11PM
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
from the Everybody-Talks-About-It,-And-Finally-Somebody-Is-Doing-Something-About-It dept.
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill establishing permanent Daylight Saving Time in the state, and the Governor has signaled she supports the effort. If it passes the House (and possibly the US Congress, it is a bit ambiguous to me), it could end the semi-annual resetting of clocks which causes so much annoyance and increase of injury and deaths.
Personally speaking, I'd rather it settled on permanent Standard time than Daylight time, but as long as it is steady I think it's better than the current regime.
See also:
Texas efforts: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/05/1413228
Europe's efforts: http://fortune.com/2019/03/26/european-union-parliament-daylight-saving-time/
Mandatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1268/
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Oregon Senate Passes Bill for Permanent Daylight Saving Time
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(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday April 07 2019, @01:14AM
I don't think that's actually true. You do need to sleep sometime. Maybe you could work when it's dark and enjoy the whole day during short days in winter at higher latitudes, but most people need 7-8 hours of sleep at some point to function well.
Also, not aligning your sleep schedule roughly to sunlight really screws with most people, even despite the amount of artificial light we now have. For years I tended toward unstable sleep schedules (I'm naturally a bit of a "night owl" and will tend to drift toward late nights and getting up mid-morning), because flexible work schedules sometimes allowed it. And it made me feel awful. Eventually, I returned to a pretty standard time of getting up around sunrise or a little later most mornings, and I felt a lot better. For a year at another point, I drifted back toward instability with shifting schedules, and again, I felt awful, gained weight, didn't do well despite feeling like I could sleep when I wanted. I stopped that again and have been on a regular schedule for some years...
Obviously everyone is different, but studies show those who work night shifts tend to have a lot more sleep disorders. My mother worked night shifts for many years, and then she tried to be awake to spend time with her family during the day, and it eventually completed destroyed her body's sleep clock. Now she's been retired for quite a few years, and she is miserable most nights -- falling asleep at odd hours, getting up at odd hours, sometimes suffering from insomnia, sometimes needing to lie down early.
So, no, I really don't think most humans would be happy doing what you suggest. I did have a friend years ago with an early-bird type of sleep disorder, where she always awoke around 2am and wanted to do work right away. And she had a job that allowed her to work at home or mostly adopt the schedule she wanted, so she'd work during the night and be done by late morning every day.
For someone like her, maybe your plan would work. Except she was always exhausted by mid-afternoon, and never had a social life because even eating dinner with friends was often past her bedtime. There's no optimal solution.