Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Your Health?

Kevin · � #1 � 03-12-2009, 07:15 AM

I don't like DST, not because of the sleep, it often makes me confused about the time in other parts of the world.

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Daylight saving time, which began this week in most of the United States, has long been promoted as a way to save energy. Whether it does is still a matter of debate. But it does seem clear from studies that a one-hour time adjustment can have unintended health consequences.

It seems that when the clock is moved forward or back one hour, the body’s internal clock — its circadian rhythm, which uses daylight to stay in tune with its environment — does not adjust. In a study of 55,000 people, for example, scientists found that on days off from work, subjects tended to sleep on standard time, not daylight time: their waking hour followed the seasonal progression of dawn.

In other studies, scientists tracked large groups of people for eight weeks at a time as they made the transitions to daylight time in spring and to standard time in autumn. They found that in spring, people’s peak activity levels were more in tune with their body clock than with the actual clock. Studies suggest that this disconnect between body time and clock time can result in restlessness, sleep disruption and shorter sleep duration. Other studies have suggested links between time change and increases in heart attacks, suicides and accidents, though scientists say more study is needed.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Daylight saving time is associated with sleep disruptions and possibly more serious consequences.

NYTimes: The Claim: Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Your Health

Cedy · � #2 � 04-24-2009, 03:43 AM

Has there ever been any protest against the implementation of Daylight Saving Time by a LARGE percentage of the population?

Kevin · � #3 � 04-24-2009, 04:25 AM

Never heard of any.

jfh · � #4 � 04-24-2009, 05:17 AM

Here Kev. This will help you.

The World Clock - Time Zones - sorted by country name

Someone, sent a letter to the editor, complaining that her plants did not like the extra hour. She said they needed more water.

Cedy · � #5 � 04-24-2009, 12:34 PM

I did not see Trinidad and Tobago on that World Clock. Didn't we just host the Fifth Summit of the Americas?

jfh · � #6 � 04-25-2009, 04:21 PM

cedy, after a search at their site, I came up with this.

Current local time in Port of Spain - Trinidad and Tobago

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