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  • it's time to kill daylight saving for good

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 27 20:35:11 2024
    UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

    It turns out morning light beats evening rays for health benefits

    The streets of Soho aren't alive with disco or bellbottoms anymore, so
    maybe it's time to ditch another '70s icon we should have outgrown by
    now, says the British Sleep Society (BSS).

    A group of researchers in the UK affiliated with the BSS published a
    paper this week calling for the permanent abolition of Daylight Saving
    Time (DST) and adherence to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in large part
    because modern evidence suggests having that extra hour of sunlight in
    the evenings is worse for our health than we thought back in the 1970s
    when the concept was all the rage in Europe.

    Not only does GMT more closely align with the natural day/light cycle
    in the UK, the boffins assert, but decades of research into sleep and
    circadian rhythms have been produced since DST was enacted that have
    yet to be considered.

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/27/abolish_daylight_saving_time/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Oct 28 10:43:13 2024
    On Sun, 27 Oct 2024, JAB wrote:

    UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good

    It turns out morning light beats evening rays for health benefits

    The streets of Soho aren't alive with disco or bellbottoms anymore, so
    maybe it's time to ditch another '70s icon we should have outgrown by
    now, says the British Sleep Society (BSS).

    A group of researchers in the UK affiliated with the BSS published a
    paper this week calling for the permanent abolition of Daylight Saving
    Time (DST) and adherence to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in large part
    because modern evidence suggests having that extra hour of sunlight in
    the evenings is worse for our health than we thought back in the 1970s
    when the concept was all the rage in Europe.

    Not only does GMT more closely align with the natural day/light cycle
    in the UK, the boffins assert, but decades of research into sleep and circadian rhythms have been produced since DST was enacted that have
    yet to be considered.

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/27/abolish_daylight_saving_time/


    Yawn... our incompetent and inept politicians have been harping on this
    theme for at least a decade, probably more and not done anything about it.

    They are too busy enriching themselves at the tax payers expense, to
    actually make a good decision that would improve the health of people.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 28 05:40:44 2024
    On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:43:13 +0100, D <[email protected]> wrote:

    Yawn... politicians...and not done anything about it.

    Stimulating the economy in US was in the driver's seat.

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