Proof Daylight Saving Time Is Dumb, Dangerous, and Costly (bloomberg.com)

From a report on Bloomberg: The case for daylight saving time has been shaky for a while. The biannual time change was originally implemented to save energy. Yet dozens of studies around the world have found that changing the clocks has either minuscule or non-existent effects on energy use. [...] The latest research suggests the time change can be harmful to our health and cost us money. The suffering of the spring time change begins with the loss of an hour of sleep. That might not seem like a big deal, but researchers have found it can be dangerous to mess with sleep schedules. Car accidents, strokes, and heart attacks spike in the days after the March time change. It turns out that judges, sleep deprived by daylight saving, impose harsher sentences. [...] Some of the last defenders of daylight saving time have been a cluster of business groups who assume the change helps stimulate consumer spending. That's not true either, according to recent analysis of 380 million bank and credit-card transactions by the JPMorgan Chase Institute.

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Re:We've known this for years

[peragrin]

Yet I love dst. You must live in your mothers baent if you don't like day light saving time. Why you might ask? As at Labor Day the sun would set at 6:15 pm instead of 7:15 pm. Do you know the number of of cookouts and parties that wouldn't happen as it was now dark so early?

And then there is the fall back. Gaining an hour light first thing in the morning to help school kids find the bus stop to help drivers see( night driving is painful for far to many people as they don't wear glasses that need them and night driving is more dangerous as a result.

Day light savings time is useful if you don't live in your mom basement.