I don't care if we have DST or leave it alone, as long as we do not have to change back and forth twice a year.
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5 ways life would be better with all year DST:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/5-ways-life-better-always-daylight-saving-time/
1) The evening rush hour is twice as fatal as the morning for various reasons:
Far more people are on the road, more alcohol is in drivers’ bloodstreams, people are hurrying to get home and more children are enjoying
outdoor, unsupervised play. Fatal vehicle-on-pedestrian crashes
increase threefold when the sun goes down.
2) Criminals strongly prefer to do their work in the darkness of evening and night.
Crime rates are lower by 30 percent in the morning to afternoon hours, even when those morning hours occur before sunrise, when it’s still dark.
3) saves energy: Having more sun in the evening requires not just less electricity to provide lighting, but
reduces the amount of oil and gas required to heat homes and businesses when people need that energy most. Under standard time, the sun rises earlier, reducing morning energy consumption, but only half of Americans are awake to be able to use the sun.
4)
It wreaks havoc with people’s sleep cycles. Heart attacks
increase 24 percent in the week after the U.S. “springs forward” in March. There’s even an uptick during the week in November when the clocks “fall back.”
If that’s not bad enough, a study from 2000 shows that the major financial market indexes NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ
average negative returns on the Monday trading day following both clock switches, presumably because of disrupted sleep cycles.
5) Finally, recreation and commerce flourish in daylight and are hampered by evening darkness.
Research shows that sunlight is far more important to Americans’ health, efficiency and safety in the early evening than it is in the early morning. That’s not to say there aren’t downsides to DST – notably, an extra hour of morning darkness.
