Daylight saving time actually doesn't make sense.

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    👑RebYidd23
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    It’s too disruptive with no real benefits.

    #1226113
    zahavasdad
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    It makes daylight hours the most useful . Daylight from 7am to 6pm is more useful than daylight from 6am to 5pm

    #1226114
    👑RebYidd23
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    Daylight produces heat.

    #1226115
    yehudayona
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    It’s intended to save energy but there’s little evidence that it does. Arizona doesn’t do it, so if you really dislike it, you could move there.

    #1226116
    akuperma
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    Does any standard time make “sense”. There are three parts to this:

    1. Should we go back to the same sort of clock (still used by Yidden to determine when to daven) based on sun time, roughly dividing the daylight into 12 hours (hour length varies during the year). The goyim switched a few centuries ago, at most.

    2. Should we have time zones at all (they were introduced by the railroads in the 19th century). Before then Baltimore and New York would have different times – but before telecommunications no one cared.

    3. The idea of daylight savings is not to “waste” the early morning daylight when everyone is sleeping and to move that daylight to evening when people are awake and about. Unless you are into a “Visikin” minyan, you probably get up at the same time regardless of whether it is dark out or not. If you don’t like daylight savings, or standard times, one can alway get up consistently at the same time regardless of government time (note that most people going to a Viskin minyan, get up roughly an hour before sunrise regardless of official times).

    #1226117
    👑RebYidd23
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    I get up based on the sun. I like to wait until the sunset to wake up, but society doesn’t allow that so I wake up after the sun rises.

    #1226118

    Rest assured that it helps no one, and that there is an increase

    in traffic and workplace accidents for a week or so to boot.

    #1226120
    Mammele
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    Besides the comfort factor, the 25% increase in heart attacks the Monday after DST begins should make us see the light. Seriously.

    #1226121
    DovidBT
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    One advantage of DST is that it gives stupid people a sense of accomplishment when they successfully change their clocks.

    #1226122
    lesschumras
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    Mammals, if your Stat is correct, then 25% of all people traveling east for 9ne time zone ( and thus gaining an hour) should also get having heart attacks

    #1226123
    kollelman
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    lesschumras- 25% increase is in average. So if an average day sees 1,000 heart attacks nationwide, Monday after DST sees 1,250. People traveling between time-zones are know to experience jet-lag and the stressful effects are well-documented as well.

    #1226124
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    I agree. I think it’s very strange.

    #1226125
    Mammele
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    LC: Sorry, I only read the article fully after posting (I vaguely remembered it from the past) so here’s some of the nitty gritty.

    It’s only based off a small Michigan study. The rest of that same week heart attacks tapered off. And when we regain an hour, there are 21% less heart attacks that Tuesday. Basically, it’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back – for vulnerable people.

    We Yidden believe that every moment of life matters, and it seems silly to intentionally increase stressful situations for such a huge percentage of the population, so in the grand scheme of things it’s bad government policy. Especially since emergency personnel may be understaffed/under equipped when heart attacks spike.

    We’re also aware of the havoc it creates in our own lives, as children (and livestock for those it matters to) couldn’t care less what the clock says when it comes to sleep schedules.

    #1226126
    WolfishMusings
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    Daylight savings time is bad because the extra hour of sunlight is bad for the crops and confuses the cows.

    The Wolf

    #1226127
    Mammele
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    Lol

    #1226128
    Lightbrite
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    Vampires hate it too

    #1226129
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    I don’t have a problem with daylight savings – I actually like it. In fact I like it so much, I wish they would keep it year-round. My problem is withe the switching back in the fall.

    #1226130
    👑RebYidd23
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    Daylight saving time is just a renaming of the hours on the clock. How do you have a preference for one set of names over the other?

    #1226131
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    I like the way the clock is set up during “daylights saving time”. I don’t like the way they set it up during the winter. I prefer that sunset be called 6:00 and not 5:00.

    #1226132
    Meno
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    Instead of actually changing my clock I just rotate the entire thing 30 degrees.

    Sometimes I even get lazy and just rotate my head 30 degrees instead.

    #1226133
    Little Froggie
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    I also get up based on the son…

    #1243220
    Lilmod Ulelamaid
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    Why daylight’s saving times is a bad idea:

    I just accidentally made a whole bunch of brachos l’vatala! How was I supposed to know that the time on the computer changed automatically at 2:00 am, and it wasn’t really alos hashachar yet??!!

    #1243418
    Meno
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    I’ve been 5 minutes late consistently since we changed the clocks.

    It seems my trick is not the best idea.

    #1395577
    yehudayona
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    DST confuses the software that the CR uses. It’s currently 1:11 AM after the switch. There are replies with later timestamps, so in the index it says the topic was last updated “some time ago.”

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