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CWuestefeld:
I think the time change is a terrible thing.

I live in NJ, commuting east in the morning toward NYC and back west again in the evening, so I'm always driving into the sun. Obviously, because of the size of NYC, there are many people making this same drive, so there's lots of traffic and lots of people are affected, and I daresay that the same situation applies anywhere there's a city that's not on the west coast.

There's a certain time period twice a year where the sun shines into your eyes below the elevation angle of your car's visor. This happens once as the days get longer (and the sunrise earlier) in the spring, and again as they move later, in the fall. During these periods there is a huge increase in traffic as folks hit the brakes because it's hard to drive with the sun in your eyes. I don't have stats, but I believe that there's a concomitant increase in accidents.

The thing is, the timing of the daylight savings changes forces us to pass through these dangerous periods twice per cycle. Once we've gone through it once in the spring, and the sun has risen high enough that it's not a danger, we have to set our clocks back an hour so once again the sun is under the visor, directly in the eyes, and causing traffic accidents.

tomos:
Around here (Scandinavia) one of the reasons for still accepting Summer-time, DST, is for the day-time working people to have the chance be a little more in the sunshine, in order to fight lack-of-light related depressions :-)
-Curt (October 26, 2008, 06:11 AM)
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I think they should keep summer-time the whole year round.
In the depths of winter in the average job it's dark when people leave home and dark when they get back so not much difference there.
Current affect of winter time here is that it's already nearly dark when "average worker" gets home - but more bright in the mornings -
actually I was thinking probably the main reason to change back (to winter time) is to help people actually get up in the mornings - me, I'd prefer the daylight later in the day ...
or a 5 hour winter working day would be another solution ;D

fenixproductions:
or a 5 hour winter working day would be another solution ;D-tomos (October 27, 2008, 09:40 AM)
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It makes me wonder how our civilisation would look like if humans could go to sleep for winter (like some mammals do).
One thing for sure: my belly should be a barrel in this part of year :)

Edvard:
My opinion on DST?
I think they should have us set our clocks for a half-hour back and LEAVE IT THERE!

Davidtheo:
I think they should have us set our clocks for a half-hour back and LEAVE IT THERE!
-Edvard (October 27, 2008, 11:10 AM)
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I live in China where they do not have DST and it is hard waking up in the morning and the sun has already been up for 2 hours and then walking home at night in the dark when it is only 6pm. It really puts your sleep pattens out. When I was in NZ it only toke two or three days to get use to the hour change but in China without DST it is a lot harder.

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