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Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says (www.sci.news)
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[–] 14 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Maybe trying to cram invented units and regimented behavior into a naturally varying but predictable system was a bad idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    So what do you want? "I start work at sunrise". What's your solution here that doesn't use invented units?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Maybe we let people have more flexibility. Stop thinking that we all need to dance at the same time like a bunch of puppets.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's fair. My work lets me start anytime between 7 and 9, it shouldn't be an advantage but required by law when feasible imo. Your comment sounded more like doing away with the notion of time as a unit more than anything else though.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    That is my goal but I realize it’s only achievable on a personal level.

    But let schools start later in the winter so kids aren’t up before dawn, let folks have flexible start times so they can get the sleep they need, that sort of thing.

    This at least helps treat the mental symptoms that come from being treated like a machine while not being one.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yes exactly start work sunrise +1h, end work dusk -1h or 9h later which ever is shorter. We are humans not machines.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Tbh though, with how all our phones are connected to the net, we could probably have a rolling daylight savings. So add 4 minutes or wtv amount every week to keep the sunrise hour always the same. So your start time would always be sun stable so to speak.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    That’s a very broad and stupid take. That basically implies all measurements of nature should be thrown out the window. We need something to base things by for uniformly and understanding across people.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Yes we do now and since we’re in the trap maybe we stop struggling and let people start work later in the winter instead of flopping hours back and forth.

    Adding flexibility will likely reduce negative health outcomes more than either strategy to attempt to line up a fake thing like the “hour” to a real thing like the sun.

    But my actual, personal solution will be never to use hours or minutes again someday.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    We got weekends. We got 40 hour weeks. We can get summer and winter hours. Less daylight, less work. No time change. Sleep in. Come home early. No sun, we're done. Time to play video games, make your partner come, work on a personal hobby, enjoy your life.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Let's meet when the sun is at 20 degrees, gotta be at work before 50 degrees.

    I can see this working for some people

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