On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 22:58:17 -0500 John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > I look at Daylight Savings as a bizarre custom, one of a multitude of > similar customs, that can be mildly annoying but is trivially easy to > cope with, Heated efforts to repeal Daylight Savings strike me as > being about as silly and pointless as trying to outlaw Santa Claus > and the Tooth Fairy. Just doesn't seem like a hill worth dying for.
If only. People literally die due to the stress caused by the shift. Really. Stroke risk for at-risk people rises up to 8% in the days following the DST change. Heart attack risk for at-risk people rises up to 24%. So yeah, abolishing DST isn't just a silly windmill tilting exercise, IMO. https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/10/26/can-daylight-saving-time-hurt-the-heart-prepare-now-for-spring -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
