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.
Comment on Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent
kzhe@lemmy.zip 7 months agoI 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
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.
Lol
Permanent standard time is better for health, and the switch also kills people every spring and fall
It’s not more light though.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 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.