END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME: PART FOUR
A BLOG FOR :
THE MOVEMENT TO END DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
Part Four: EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
SPECIAL NOTE
SOME PEOPLE TAKE THEIR DEMANDS FOR EVIDENCE TOO FAR. FOR INSTANCE IF I STATE THAT ADDITIONAL STRESS CAUSES PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE WITH TOO MUCH STRESS, AND THEN SOMEONE DEMANDS EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THAT CLAIM THEN THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED AND PROBABLY WOULD NOT SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT ANYWAY. ALTHOUGH I AM A PROUD SKEPTIC AND SCHOLAR, I KEEP MY EXPECTATIONS REALISTIC.
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IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER ARE A LIST OF FACTS SUPPORTING THE END OF DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME AND SWITCHING TO STANDARD TIME. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE PLEASE NAVIGATE TO PART ONE OF THIS BLOG SERIES USING THE NAVIGATION BAR NEAR THE TOP RIGHT SECTION OF THIS WEBPAGE.
Sample: In Indiana, daylight saving time caused a 1 percent jump in electricity, according to a 2010 study.
Sample: Always sold as a conservation measure, the practice of daylight savings actually jacked electricity use in homes across one central U.S. state by up to four per cent, according to a new American study.
Sample: We found that the time change increased residential electricity consumption by 1 percent over all, with monthly increases as high as 4 percent in the late summer and early fall.
Sample: National Bureau of Economic Research - DST causes the greatest increase in electricity consumption in the fall, when estimates range between 2 and 4 percent.
EDITOR'S NOTE: THERE ARE THREE ARTICLES LINKED TO THIS ONE LINK, EACH PACKED WITH RELEVANT INFORMATION.
Sample: Our health may benefit, however, from a quantifiable boost in recreational activities that goes along with lighter evenings. Hendrik Wolff and colleagues were among several groups to document this phenomenon, in their case using data from a nationwide American time-use study.
Sample: One study found there is a 7% increase in traffic accidents the week after the spring time change because drivers are disoriented and sleep-deprived.
Sample: Every year, twice a year, I spam my various reps with long missives about how DST was allegedly begun for farmers and is no longer needed ’cause them tractors got LIGHTS ON ‘EM these days, PLUS all the farmers who farm the several thousand acres of corn (or soybeans depending on the year) around my house do it at night anyway. IN THE DARK. ON TRACTORS WITH UFO-BRIGHT LIGHTS ON THEM.
One study found there is a 7% increase in traffic accidents the week after the spring time change because drivers are disoriented and sleep-deprived.
Sample: And the fact is, farmers mostly oppose DST. In Indiana (prior to 2006), where part of the state observed DST, and part did not, farmers generally opposed a move to Daylight Saving Time. Farm-owners and ag-workers, who must wake with the sun (or their animals) no matter what time their clocks say, are greatly inconvenienced by having to alter their schedule in order to sell products to their customers who illogically observe Daylight Saving Time.
A second page of facts and citations will be posted this week.
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