Daylight Savings Time

[JohnnySavage]

Lol...did you wake before your cycle this morning?

Just curious why a person who apparently doesn't use clocks wants to discuss time changes

"I have too many things that need the timers reset". - Champ c. 2022

I'm here to help! And don't know how to multi quote

 

[ll74]

"I have too many things that need the timers reset". - Champ c. 2022

I'm here to help! And don't know how to multi quote

Aah..that makes sense...kinda. except generally timers on appliances don't care about the actual time of day. Once I hooked everything into my router....all my appliances change on schedule

For some reason I was thinking that was another person who said that.

 

[JohnnySavage]

My lady friend is all into the technology and such. Controls the robot vacuum from her phone. Controls the air freshener from her phone.

A simpler answer is to just not change the clocks.

 

[Champakian]

It is an interesting topic and a timely topic.

 

[ll74]

My lady friend is all into the technology and such. Controls the robot vacuum from her phone. Controls the air freshener from her phone.

A simpler answer is to just not change the clocks.

If we didn't schedule our lives on clocks, then that would be sufficient.

We do, though. I tend to get up whenever my brain starts bitching about work, but my daily meetings don't adjust to that schedule. It would be cool if they did...my day would go faster.

Luckily, my dog adjusts pretty well to my brain schedule, so getting up at the crack of dawn or two hours later doesn't matter as much to her, as long as she gets the walkabouts.

 

[NC_Coastal]

The entire world should just set its clocks and watches on Zulu time and be done with it.

 

[Rightguide]

What do you think about it?

Stay on DST?
Stay on regular time?
Keep changing the clocks twice a year?

~~~ or ~~~

You Americans just crack me up thinking that changing the time changes anything...

It's either dark mornings or dark afternoons.

 

[Champakian]

In the summer???

 

[CarlyAnn]

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[SgtSpiderMan]

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Not bad.

 

[rgraham666]

Only a white man could cut a foot off one end of a blanket, sew it on the other end, and think they have a longer blanket. - a probably apocryphal indigenous person

 

[Dashabout]

For me it's a way to remember to dust most of the clocks in the house. He collects and repairs old ones and I get to dust the ones he doesn't sell.

 

[phrodeau]

Farmers have opposed DST since the beginning, for so long that they became associated with DST. Many people now believe farmers want DST. They don't have enough votes, but that will change as we leave the industrial age and become an agricultural society again. DST is nonsense for people who don't have clocks.

Farmers needed early access to merchants and bankers, so it was easier to change the clocks rather than make them change their hours of operation. With easy credit and round-the-clock service, it’s much less of an issue nowadays.

 

[Rick345]

Due to the time change there is a increase of about 2600 fatal car accident each year. That is just car accidents but the same percent in fatal accident occur in industry, and all activities really. Add to that nonfatal accidents which can lead to loss of work, disabilities, physical and emotional trauma DST adds no benefit to society to the contrary it is costly and deadly. Stop the stupidity.

 

[ll74]

If you want t to go with a single time, standard makes more sense

 

[LLCox]

You Americans just crack me up thinking that changing the time changes anything...

The reason is so that the children do not have to wait on the school bus in the dark. How stupid, huh.

 

[RoryN]

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Hi, RMarsh,

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Sadly, since you're not funny or clever, you will never replicate my success. ☹

That's all. Looking forward to your next alt!

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Due to the time change there is an increase of about 2600 fatal car accident each year. That is just car accidents but the same percent in fatal accident occur in industry, and all activities really. Add to that nonfatal accidents which can lead to loss of work, disabilities, physical and emotional trauma DST adds no benefit to society to the contrary it is costly and deadly. Stop the stupidity.

So there are no fatal accidents from March to November?

 

[Rick345]

So there are no fatal accidents from March to November?

Of course there were, that is why I stated there were 2600 more aka additional fatal car accidents because of DST... When people are overly tired, they don’t think as clearly, and they don’t react as quickly. This is particularly a problem when it comes to driving.

According to a recent study published by Current Biology, the spring transition to Daylight Saving Time increases the risk of being in a fatal traffic accident by 6% in the United States. The increased risk is due to a combination of sleep deprivation and the misalignment of the body’s biological rhythms in response to the one-hour change.

The study found that more motor vehicle accidents occurred in the mornings and in the westernmost portion of a particular time zone, where it stayed darker longer. But DST-related fatality car accidents also increased in the afternoon hours in spite of longer daylight. because people are tired which causes them to be less alert. The increased crash risk dropped off about a week after the time change.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Of course there were that is why I stated there were 2600 more because of DST... More means in addition too. When people are overly tired, they don’t think as clearly, and they don’t react as quickly. This is particularly a problem when it comes to driving.

According to a recent study published by Current Biology, the spring transition to Daylight Saving Time increases the risk of being in a fatal traffic accident by 6% in the United States. The increased risk is due to a combination of sleep deprivation and the misalignment of the body’s biological rhythms in response to the one-hour change.

The study found that more motor vehicle accidents occurred in the mornings and in the westernmost portion of a particular time zone, where it stayed darker longer. But DST-related fatality car accidents also increased in the afternoon hours in spite of longer daylight. The increased crash risk dropped off about a week after the time change.

To be clear, you didn’t. You didn’t provide anything that shows the fatalities are due to DST. There are studies out that people don’t sleep enough all year round.

 

[Rick345]

To be clear, you didn’t. You didn’t provide anything that shows the fatalities are due to DST. There are studies out that people don’t sleep enough all year round.

I made the assumption that people understood that driving a car is a complex task and being tired slows ones reactions and ability to think and react clearly and quickly. Key factors in avoiding car accidents. Being tired hampers to ability to think clearly and react quickly. We have all experience the tired run down feeling you get after switching to DST.. I didn't realize that needed to be explained..

What is the one time of year more people are generally more tired than the rest of the year? When we switch to DST.. The fact there are 6% more fatal accident during the week of the switch is evidence of a connection between DST and fatal car accidents. If only we had a control to compare the data... Ummm Hawaii, Arizona, and Puerto Rico don't do the DST thing and they don't have a spike in fatal accidents at that time either, if you assumption is valid they should have the same resualts as the sates which do the time change.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I made the assumption that people understood that driving a car is a complex task and being tired slows ones reactions and ability to think and react clearly and quickly. Key factors in avoiding car accidents. Being tired hampers to ability to think clearly and react quickly. We have all experience the tired run down feeling you get after switching to DST.. I didn't realize that needed to be explained..

What is the one time of year more people are generally more tired than the rest of the year? When we switch to DST.. The fact there are 6% more fatal accident during the week of the switch is evidence of a connection between DST and fatal car accidents. If only we had a control to compare the data... Ummm Hawaii, Arizona, and Puerto Rico don't do the DST thing and they don't have a spike in fatal accidents at that time either, if you assumption is valid they should have the same resualts as the sates which do the time change.

And again, people don’t get enough sleep year round. So you’d first have to show that people are more awake and alert at other times of the year. My issue isn’t that people who are tired are going to be poor drivers, it’s that there are volumes of studies showing people never get enough sleep.

What is the fatality rate in Arizona, Indiana, Puerto Rico and Hawaii? You haven’t given any data on those states at all.

 

[RoryN]

Hi, RoryN, I don't think spending twenty years of your life posting comments

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Thanks for playing, snowflake!

 

[silver gurl]

...said the guy with 30+ Literotica alts. (And counting.)

Thanks for playing, snowflake!

I was just going to say the same thing. You beat me to it!

 

[Rick345]

And again, people don’t get enough sleep year round. So you’d first have to show that people are more awake and alert at other times of the year. My issue isn’t that people who are tired are going to be poor drivers, it’s that there are volumes of studies showing people never get enough sleep.

What is the fatality rate in Arizona, Indiana, Puerto Rico and Hawaii? You haven’t given any data on those states at all.

There is no spike in Arizona, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii states during the time period other states set their clocks back.. Most of Indiana prior to 2006 did not experience a spike in accidents after 2005 when all in Indiana adopted DST it has experienced an increase accidents during the week they set their clocks back..

During WWII there was not spike in road accidents during the time people traditionally set their clocks back... During WWII the entire county was put on DST from January 1, 1942 till June 1945...

Explain to me how and why even though a 100 years of data shows spikes in accidents in places that observe DST during the week of the switch the time switch has nothing to do with the time switch? Also explain why places that don't observe DST don't experience the same increase in accidents as the places that do observe DST.. The empirical evidence is compelling to the contrary..