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Daylight saving is supposed to save a huge amount of energy, and I am all for that…, but could we maybe still not do it?.. Maybe just hibernate for the winter…, save loads more energy and, yes, solved it … and…sleep 😁

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Annoying part is it doesn’t even save a huge amount of energy. Negligible amounts either way.

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15 points

Missed work and sleep cycle disregulation effects are not trivial either. It’s dumb. Pathetic that our spineless politicians can’t even do something simple and non partisan like getting rid of this bullshit.

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Yeah, tell me about it…


Edit: Hey, I just looked it up and apparently at least some of them did try back in 2022. From Wikipedia:

In 2022, the United States Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act which would permanently activate daylight saving time, but it was not approved by the U.S. House of Representatives.[3]

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sleep cycle disregulation effects are not trivial either

I get that there’ve been studies about this so it’s hard for me to argue, but I still can’t quite understand how it has such a strong effect. If someone happens to be busy one night and goes to sleep an hour later than usual it doesn’t seem like the end of the world to me.

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5 points

Costs money. Costs lives.

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2 points

Back in the day it did because people could keep their lights off for longer. But now they need to keep their AC on more.

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