In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?

  • meco03211@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Read an interesting article that said insurance companies lose tons of money because of time changes. Animals supposedly get used to traffic being low/high at certain times of day (based on the sun cause they don’t have watches). So when the time changes, they keep their same routine and end up causing more accidents while crossing roads they are used to being empty.

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      1 year ago

      The week after we move clocks forward in the spring, thereby “losing an hour”, there is a marked increase in car collisions and heart attacks.

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        1 year ago

        It’s kinda absurd if you think about it. We’re here arguing about Standard Time vs Daylight Saving Time while people are literally dying every year due to losing sleep every spring. I wish more states would just bypass Congress and revert back to Standard Time.

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          I’d prefer daylight time myself, but frankly I wouldn’t complain about either option being made permanent.