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Here We GO Again !!!!!! Here we go again shifting our clocks ahead this weekend, but is this change to daylight saving time dangerous? A little bit...... When we move our clocks forward one hour, many of us will lose that hour of sleep. In the days after daylight saving time starts, our biological clocks are a little bit off. It’s like the whole country has been given one hour of jet lag. One hour of lost sleep sounds like a small change, but we humans are fragile, sensitive creatures. Small disruptions in our sleep have been shown to alter basic indicators of our health and dull our mental edge. When our biological clocks are off, everything about us is out of sync. Our bodies run this tight schedule to try to keep up with our actions. Since we usually eat a meal after waking up, we produce the most insulin in the morning. We're primed to metabolize breakfast before even taking a bite. It's more efficient that way. There’s some good research that finds taking over-the-counter melatonin helps reset our body clocks to a new time. Being an hour off schedule means our bodies are not prepared for the actions we partake in at any time of the day. One prime example: driving... In 1999, researchers at Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities wanted to find out what happens on the road when millions of drivers have their sleep disrupted. Analyzing 21 years of fatal car crash data from the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, they found a very small, but significant, increase in road deaths on the Monday after the clock shift in the spring: The number of deadly accidents jumped to an average of 83.5 on the "spring forward" Monday compared with an average of 78.2 on a typical Monday. It seems it's not just car accidents. Evidence has also mounted of an increase in incidences of workplace injuries and heart attacks in the days after we spring forward. How can we abolish daylight saving time, or extend it all year round? That’s easy! Well, not really:...... All it would take is an act of Congress. But given the current priorities to revamp the nation’s health care law, pass infrastructure spending, and rejigger the tax code, on top of the usual congressional dysfunction, I wouldn’t count on this happening anytime soon. However, with a small dose of caution we can make it through this, self-inflicted time dilation together. |
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3/11/2017 2:53 pm |
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3/11/2017 2:54 pm |
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Thanks for the reminder, Bret. I started changing a few clocks already. It is a real hassle. I would like to see DST eliminated. It really serves no purpose, in spite of what the polytishins tell us.
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3/11/2017 3:39 pm |
Thanks for the reminder, Bret. I started changing a few clocks already. It is a real hassle. I would like to see DST eliminated. It really serves no purpose, in spite of what the polytishins tell us.
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3/11/2017 4:52 pm |
We ARE farmers and we live by the sun not by the clocks. Through the year we change our start and finish times by the sun. It is pretty irrelevant what the clock says and what chores need to be accomplished. ALSO the world really isn't the nice round ball everyone thinks it is. The amount of daylight and "high noon" has a great deal of variance across North America... I've seen the maps but have to think about just where to find them.
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I am sensitive!!
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Thanks for reminding me!!
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3/11/2017 6:41 pm |
yep it is that time of year again. I just wish they would live it alone.
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3/11/2017 6:42 pm |
I am sensitive!!
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3/11/2017 6:43 pm |
Thanks for reminding me!!
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3/11/2017 6:44 pm |
Another who lives by the sun and not governed by a mechanical device.
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3/11/2017 8:41 pm |
Wilson, Roosevelt and Johnson... ALL progressive liberals of their day...that explains everything.
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3/11/2017 10:57 pm |
I hate that the time change wish they leave it a lone
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3/12/2017 5:41 am |
Sooner or later someone has to fit it and return sanity to this country.
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3/12/2017 5:42 am |
The sun wins in the end no matter how many clocks we set.
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Seems like this could be something we all could agree upon--a standard time set without variation throughout the year.
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3/13/2017 7:16 am |
Seems like this could be something we all could agree upon--a standard time set without variation throughout the year.
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