Can you explain to me why this is good. It seems like a pain, but I assume there must be a good reason for it. Does it truly save energy? Is this documented somewhere?
By contrast, risk for heart attack dropped 21 percent on the Tuesday after the fall time change.”
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/10/26/can-daylight-saving...
“A study of 732,000 accidents over two decades has found that the annual switch to daylight saving time is associated with a 6% increase in fatal car crashes that week.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200130144410.h...
The severe disruption in schedules is correlated with triggering depressive episodes (great when we're going into winter!) and increase in obesity.
What's more: the fact that we all do it syncronously and it negatively affects our mood means that there's a "DST meanness" wave that washes over cities during autumn and spring.
It's not "and vice versa" - the change to DST has a slight negative effect, the change to ST has a similar slight positive effect on these indicators.
I have difficulty articulating exactly how much I dislike any time shifting from beneath me.
I find as I grow older that I’m more OK with it, but I need only remember how I felt as a kid to realise how absolutely insane and arbitrary it is.
Then I remember that after we “spring forward” I always feel like ass for a week, and so does everyone else.
It’s like some kind of weird game theory, nobody is willing to remove it because: “we’ve always done it this way” is a dangerous amount of ignorance to apply to a global population.