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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time:
The AASM supports a switch to permanent standard time, explaining in the statement that standard time more closely aligns with the daily rhythms of the body's internal clock. The position statement also cites evidence of increased risks of motor vehicle accidents, cardiovascular events, and mood disturbances following the annual "spring forward" to daylight saving time.
"Permanent, year-round standard time is the best choice to most closely match our circadian sleep-wake cycle," said lead author Dr. M. Adeel Rishi, a pulmonology, sleep medicine and critical care specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and vice chair of the AASM Public Safety Committee. "Daylight saving time results in more darkness in the morning and more light in the evening, disrupting the body's natural rhythm."
[...] "There is ample evidence of the negative, short-term consequences of the annual change to daylight saving time in the spring," said AASM President Dr. Kannan Ramar. "Because the adoption of permanent standard time would be beneficial for public health and safety, the AASM will be advocating at the federal level for this legislative change."
Journal Reference:
Muhammad Adeel Rishi, MD, et. al. Daylight saving time: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.8780)
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by VLM on Friday August 28 2020, @01:51PM (1 child)
You know, legacy media used to be popular, and back when prime time TV could get 1/3 of the population to watch, the advertisements for shows always referenced eastern timezone times and tape delayed for the left coast hippies. So midwesterners already lived in eastern timezone kinda.
Also I worked at a financial services company where we were technically living in central time, but for business reasons we worked eastern time. Its not like we LARPed that the NYSE operated on a one hour tape delay in our TZ LOL. Was always kinda a PITA where our facility locally was central but all corporate "stuff" was eastern TZ. Now of course its 24x7 international automated high freq trading and humans aren't involved that much anymore other than daytraders funding the market by losing all their money lol.
So yeah, probs couldda gotten away with making the world run on eastern time zone back in the 70s, but its a half century late now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:48PM
I grew up living on Eastern time where TV "prime time" started at 8pm. In the 80s I moved to Austin for a couple of years and I never got used to the fact that "prime time" started at 7pm. A lot of times I wasn't even done with dinner at that point! And even today, it just doesn't seem right, when visiting California, to turn the TV on at 10am on a Sunday and see an NFL game. Ten on a Sunday morning is supposed to have awful Jimmy Swaggert-like shows that kept you from turning the TV on until at least noon. I suppose on the west coast it is only the early risers who get fleeced by the Sunday con artists?