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

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
    31·
    8 months 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.

    • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
      27·
      8 months 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.

      • provisional@lemmy.sdf.org
        71·
        8 months 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.

        • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
          31·
          8 months ago

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