Whatever research ensued from my developing this blog was not inspired by a desire for deeper knowledge. A friend had gifted me a version of a smart watch which shows time and is used mostly to mark steps. As of Sunday morning. I need an app I don’t want to update it, so I will go through half a year making a mental adjustment to be either late or early. How did we get to this point and how do we think we have really changed anything? As far as I can tell, the sun comes up and the sun goes down, and it pays no attention to labels we put on its cycles.
Note: cows were milked in the morning and Abe Lincoln read by candlelight until WWI. Find your own details, but DST was non-existent between the World Wars. Then there were exceptions and even today some areas of the world just take what is provided. Where you live in America determines how you set your clock, and October/February babies set their own sleeping and eating schedule without ever consulting a clock. Mindboggling terms appear like “shift an hour” (who does the pushing) and “a patchwork of daylight” (sounds like sewing some darkness in to make a quilt square.)
At the end of the day (Pun intended), no definitive research says without a doubt this is the best decision since sliced bread. Some business have made financial gains and some golfers have kept courses open after work. However, coffee shops have lost money and the advantage to the energy sector is inconclusive. Proof does exist that strokes and heart attacks increase and disruption of that flow of a day, circadian rhythm, causes loss of sleep while adjusting. I figure that if we are saving with DST we should be amassing interest at some point. The adage says, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Could we just live with what we were given?
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. Genesis 1:5
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