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American Academy of Sleep Medicine Calls for Elimination of Daylight Saving Time

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 28 2020, @12:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'll-sleep-to-that dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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)

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:36PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @02:36PM (#1043321)

    UTC is based on what was GMT, whether you like it or not, and every computer, satellite, GPS device, protocol (NTP), etc. and everything that depend on those would need to be changed.

    (emphasis added)

    GPS does not use UTC. It uses its own atomic clock-based time system, called GPS time (GPST) which is essentially equivalent to international atomic time (TAI) except that it lags it by 19 seconds.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @03:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 28 2020, @03:17PM (#1043350)

    Since you brought up the technicalities, for the benefit of Soylentils who do not want to look up GPS time and TAI, note that both of them were at the time of their creation EQUAL to UTC (or its equivalent). The difference is neither GPS time nor TAI have observed leap seconds. Thus, they have slowly become out of sync with UTC.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:42PM (#1043814)

    But everything that everyday people deal with uses UTC, so you need to account for those accumulated leap seconds, which we're up to (I think) 18 seconds.