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Re:Time to lose Daylight Savings Time (Score:5, Informative)
There are many logical arguments for time change. Whether the benefits outweigh the costs is what is at issue. Welcome to alternate viewpoints, population you don't count, you just want to rant.
What evidenced based arguments can you site? The rationale I have read for DLS involve saving electricity, but as this article suggests, [scientificamerican.com] not only does DLS not save electricity, it may actually use more. It also goes on to cite studies that suggest that DLS may actually cause heart attacks. Farmers tend to hate DLS because they get up when the need to get up with no relationship to the clock. When the time jumps around, they still get up when they need to get up, they're just suddenly one hour out of sync with the wall time.
Though to be fair, it may save some traffic accidents due to allowing more people to drive home in the daylight and it may provide more revenue for some retailers. Though there's plenty of evidence to suggest that sleep disruption (like moving someone's wake and sleep time) causes more accidents [mja.com.au]. The cited article studied shift workers, but it applies to anyone who's regular sleep cycle is suddenly disrupted.
All in all, it looks like DLS shifts on whole causes lots of hassle, probably costs money and lives and should its self die a quiet death in retirement.
Re:Are we not advanced enough to use UTC Time? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Corporate bureacracy (Score:4, Informative)
In the UK, it's Scottish farmers who want the early day light. There have been some experiments here with regards to either abolishing it or doing a "double day light savings" (essentially changing to CET).
http://www.rmg.co.uk/explore/a... [rmg.co.uk]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... [wikipedia.org]
http://www.theguardian.com/com... [theguardian.com]