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Confoundingly, not having permanent daylight savings time could harm sleep and mental health, @inanutshellus says.

If it benefits you to have DST timing, you'll want permanent DST. If it benefits you to ditch it, you'll want to ditch it.

The effects of being on the "wrong side" affect mental health and safety.

Thus... whichever way you want to be true, is true.

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It turns out that humans evolved in hyper local environments and are not designed to serve the needs of corporations and schedules.

Yeah. I think we need to get back to a life that revolves around natural cycles and healthy circadian rhythms. It’s stupid that I have to get up in the dark to take my kid to school. Unquestionably, my kid should be sleeping until the light naturally wakes her.

You mean move back to Africa? It might be a bit un-natural for humans to even live that far north, which forces the consumption of more resources (heating, clothing, food transport, etc.) than we would if we would live in milder climates.

On top of which, people seem to have a large variation in preferences, see : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10870...

You are on the other side of the line, that's all.

No matter which way the government goes, someone's "mental health and safety" WILL be affected... just... somewhere else.

Implying only one side has those effects (like this topic's headline) is underhanded.

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