How permanent daylight saving time and later school starts could affect health

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Here's how permanent daylight saving time and later school starts could affect health

About 70 countries around the world nudge their clocks back and forth each year -- but some people want to"spring forward" permanently, citing health and other benefits.

Some of those same people are also pushing for later school start times, but experts argue the benefits for tired teenagers could be canceled out by permanent daylight saving time, according to correspondence in the journal Current Biology. The authors argue that California lawmakers pushing for both policies are"confused."The argument goes like this: During daylight saving time, the clock moves an hour forward -- so sunrise and sunset occur an hour later than before.

This is less of a problem for the average Earthling than it is for astronauts, who whip around Earth so fast they see a sunrise every 90 minutes."After a couple of weeks, you're going to be falling asleep several hours later than you did the first day," Erin Flynn-Evans, director of NASA's Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory, previously explained to CNN.

 

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Stop all this electronic crap in the evenings Teach them to usu their brains. Possibly a caculater can be used.Being dependent on all the mechanical stuff causes them not to think. Grandson is 21. Asked to call the operator for me. Said he didn’t know how!!!!!

Why not just leave it alone? I am 71yrs young. I hate DST. When I was in grammar school thru hi school we were on regular standard time we managed to get home every day around 4pm. Left for school between 7 and 7:30am. As far as I can remember, no one was tired

I believe in natural time. Not changes that confuse people and then effect their lives

Can you guys give me your Ranking from 1 to 10 of whos lives matter the most? have you reported on whats happening in Africa to the farmers once? reported relentlessly about Christchurch but Sri Lankas forgotten already

It doesn't! Where do you come up with these nonsensical studies?

What are the benefits of daylight saving time? If it saves energy I don’t see the problem.

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