Let's get rid of DST (with link to cool, interactive maps)

[Brian Howell]

What is the benefit of Daylight Saving Time? Contrary to its intent, it doesn't save energy. In fact, it may increase energy demand through the additional use of air conditioning or heat. Each year the US economy suffers over $400M in productivity loss as a consequence of the switchover. Well, it may save a few lives: a RAND Corporation study in 2007 showed a 10% reduction in springtime automobile crashes attributable to DST. Then again, in the week of the spring forward switch over there is a countering increase in heart attacks, along with an increase in traffic fatalities and transportation snafus. And, generally, DST can aggravate seasonal affective disorder.

Key Articles (cool, interactive maps)

http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/

http://www.citylab.com/weather/2015/11/the-maps-that-prove-daylight-saving-is-ruining-our-lives/417600/

Oops!

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2012/11/snafu-day-dc-metro-forgets-turn-clocks-strands-revelers/3812/ (a doozy!)

http://www.notsville.com/2012/03/clinton-man-mistakes-daylight-saving-time-for-rapture.html

Fun Errata (some Amish do not observe English Time)

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/k.html

References

http://www.techinsider.io/daylight-saving-time-bad-health-effects-2015-10

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/09/daylight-saving-time-means-more-traffic-accidents/

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/daylight-saving-time-americas-greatest-shame/354753/

http://news.discovery.com/human/health/why-do-we-have-daylight-savings-time.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/03/time-to-kill-daylight-saving/387175/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/29/us-heart-daylightsaving-idUSBREA2S0D420140329#LTk8IQs6hUdRoBWd.97

[jack saunders]

Daylight Savings Time?  The purpose has always been clear to me:  A significant hit of excitement for 10 year old boys every spring when they can go out and play after dinner.  This is a non-trivial addition to total human happiness if you can swing it.  Even the "fall back" brings one strangely foreshortened afternoon.  Boys love strange anythings. 

But then the green eye-shade types get hold of it, and discover, of course, all kinds of hidden costs.  Productivity losses.  Car crashes.  I think I once heard that some in China jump off of buildings.  

And today we make the doubter's math easier by threatening the parents of free range children with prison.   Face it, we are a dour bunch.

 

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