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 8 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
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
pelotron@midwest.social 8 months ago
Lol
Natanael@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Permanent standard time is better for health, and the switch also kills people every spring and fall
Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s not more light though.
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.