Comment on Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent

Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kzhe@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want them to keep it alternating and nt stick to it.

  Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn’t that much is still worth the inconvenience.

  Also,  2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)

  Basically more light is good

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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “transition periods in daylight saving time regulations are linked to a rise in total mortality and should be avoided in the interest of general well-being.”

    - National Library of Medicine

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084938/

     

    “Spring DST transition acutely increases fatal traffic accident risk by 6% in the US”

    - A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk

    www.cell.com/…/S0960-9822(19)31678-1?

     

    “sleep disruptions during the Spring transition cause suicide rates to rise by 6.25 percent and all DoD to increase by 6.59 percent.”

    - Saving Light, Losing Lives: How Daylight Saving Time Impacts Deaths of Despair

    gc.cuny.edu/…/Saving-Light%2C-Losing-Lives-How-Da…

     

    So, there’s data supporting DST costing lives, saving lives, and not having any impact either way. I cherry-picked a few to illustrate the former, which paired with yours make for a more complete picture.

    Overall, estimates on the lives lost side appear to be numerically higher; so taking ALL of it at face value, getting rid of DST would save more lives.

    I’d vote to chop it if saving lives is your chief concern.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Basically more light is good

    Cutting a foot of fabric off the top of a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom doesn’t result in more blanket.

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    • pelotron@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Permanent standard time is better for health, and the switch also kills people every spring and fall

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  • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not more light though.

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