The lighter side: Eliminate Daylight Savings NOW! PDF Print E-mail
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Written by gabriel   
Sunday, 19 August 2007

Or perhaps more accurately, make it permanent.

Here is my beef.  It's a December day in Boston.  You've been locked up in the office all day and it's 5pm.  You walk out the door at 5:01 pm, craving the feeling of the sun on your face, and.... it's dark.  You came to work and it was dark. You leave work and it's dark.  You're depressed, 

In fact, this is a well documented medical disorder.  As far back as 1984 the American Medical Association confirmed "The high rate of depression people experience in winter has been linked...to inadequate light stimulation."

So by making daylight saving permanent and eliminating the "fall back" clock reset, during the short days of winter workers would get at least an hour of sunlight after closing up shop for the day.  And our national mental health would be better for it.

DEBATE IT!  





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