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Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions

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Re: Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions

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Post by neuralRiot »

_mlbt wrote: post #4

I lived in a state that doesn’t do the daylight saving time change and it was wonderful. No messed up sleep and no changing clocks. Really the only problem is that I would forget that my family and friends in other states were now suddenly off by an hour from what I was expecting.

Is 1 hour of delay on the sleep pattern really that problematic for some people? I can barely notice the time shift during DST day, specially when most clocks around us are synchronized automatically. Or maybe it’s because my most comfortable sleep time is between 6-7 hours?

Re: Daylight saving time and early school start times cost billions

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Post by BobaFloutist »

netsharc wrote: post #5
claviska wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would imagine the subtle daily increase or decrease in daylight, even in extreme latitudes, is more natural and healthier than an immediate one hour shift in either direction.

Hmm, instead of an hour shift, a 30-day shift of 2 minutes per day would be an interesting experiment. Hey why do I see so many raised pitchforks all of a sudden? Getting anything figured out would be a mess, obviously, if everything were synced up (from the clock on your grandma's kitchen wall up to the clock on say Air Force One) it'd be easier (hmm, I see even more pitchforks). Someone's daily meeting with oversea…

Couldn't you hypothetically just do this for your own purposes? Write an app that moves your alarm time by two minutes a day and tells you when to go to bed?

You would have to choose a wakeup time that was conducive to your work schedule, even when you're getting up an hour "late" (right before the time change), but maybe it would still be worth it?

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