Out of the Blue

Happy Standard Time to everyone who had to change their clocks today, as the end of Daylight Saving Time is once again upon us. For a hot minute there it seemed like there was momentum behind legislation to make the United States go with permanent Daylight time, but that seems to have petered out. An article on the Washington Post makes the case for why Standard time is healthier for people than Daylight time, so maybe permanent Standard time would be preferable. But I don't know anyone who thinks that jacking the clock back and forth twice a year is working well, so hopefully this isn't the last we've heard of this.

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Re: OotB: We have standards!
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1badmf wrote on Nov 3, 2024, 17:01:
in that case, sunrise at the summer soltice will be around 4:45am. tad early don't you think?

Hell no. If you removed the weird, counterintuitive obsession with time that has been foisted upon people in the name of "productivity", people could follow whatever their natural circadian rhythm was and you would see a net positive health outcome from it.

What's the substantive difference between 0445 and 0545 if you naturally want to wake when the sun is 20 degrees above the eastern horizon?
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