Well, most of us “lose” an hour of sleep tonight. Why? Well to defeat the Hun of course!
Kaiser Bill has been dust for almost 84 years, but I am sure he is just trying to lull us into a false sense of security.
Beat the Hun! Spring Forward
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I’d much prefer going to bed everyday of the year eight hours before dawn and getting up at dawn everyday, unfortunately the rest of the working world just doesn’t cooperate.
Seems the new hotness is to go on daylight savings time 24/7.
Because that doesn’t have really freaking obvious downsides WRT dealing with the rest of the world….
The “two weeks” that’s lasted the last two years has shown that businesses can in fact adjust to deal with a change in human situations, and we don’t actually need to pay the price in resources, health and even life that comes every blanking time-change.
Amen to David WS and Foxfier. And I still don’t understand how anyone blames farmers for this nonsense. That remark by Homer Simpson is something I’ve heard before, although not in my Illinois home town, where people know better, especially with respect to the heightened danger to school children. Rural school bus routes and pre-dawn darkness do not make a happy mix. My friends who still live there insist, and I’ve no reason to disagree, that there are significantly fewer accidents and injuries at and after dusk than in the early morning hours.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/daylight-saving-can-make-driving-less-safe
The researchers looked at 732,835 car accidents recorded through the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System that took place between 1996 and 2017.
The researchers discovered a consistent rise in fatal car crashes during the week we “spring forward.”
That increase spiked in 2007 when the Energy Policy Act switched the DST change to March from April, further solidifying the link between car crashes and daylight saving.
On average, the time change causes a 6 percent increase in fatal car accidents in the week following the spring DST transition, which amounts to about 28 additional deaths each year.
“Our findings are in line with more general research showing that the ‘mini jetlag’ caused by the 1-hour loss due to DST is most severe in the first days after transition, and can be observed up to 2 weeks,” study co-author Josef Fritz, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow with the circadian and sleep epidemiology lab at University of Colorado, Boulder, told Healthline.
The research team also found the further west a person lives, the greater their risk of a crash.
Those in the western edge of their time zone — i.e., people in Amarillo, Texas, and St. George, Utah — had about an 8 percent increase in fatal car crashes.
But hey, what’s a few dozen deaths a year to make sure some companies don’t have to institute summer hours?
Thanks for the link, Foxfier.
Welcome.
I knew i’d read it somewhere, was delighted to find actual information on the study.
Blame it on the dairy farmers. The change in time meant they had to milk the cows in the dark. My grandparents lived in a small city Mankato, Minnesota. As a GP my grandfather often made house calls to farms.
Living in higher latitudes in the winter has a big effect on the human body. Daylight hours are reduced. More depression, more alcoholism. and more disease. The latter because less Vitamin D is synthesized. However there are full spectrum lights (some marketed as Happy Lights). Injections of Vitamin D3 or high doses of D3 capsules may also be prescribed.
Being weird, I love listening to Old Time radio shows online. Some include their original commercials such as “Listen to Jack Benny tomorrow on this station at 8 PM War Time.” Took me a sec first time I heard it, and then the steel penny dropped.
Thinking of the Kaiser, the US Committee on Public Information (the propaganda arm of the US govt in WWI) produced a cinematic great, “The Kaiser: the Beast of Berlin.” Unfortunately it is one of the many lost silent movies.
CAM, I’ve heard that, but from what I understand a farmer is always going to follow nature, not the clock, so I don’t see why it should matter to them.
Fine. Stay on DST year round. My bladder does.
hi!
From a Catholic perspective, just wondering how the time change effects Lent & Advent.
Noticed yesterday, that the hunger bell didn’t just go off an hour earlier, but the desire to eat was more of a desire for comfort than actual hunger, which is the antithesis of Lenten Sacrafice.