Posted on 03/09/2014 8:10:34 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
Daylight Saving Time may have serious health implications for some, making it a difficult, even potentially dangerous change, CBS 2′s Kristine Johnson reported. “It affects my sleep, my whole life schedule. I get crazy,” said Shayla Edwards. “Our body has a natural circadian rhythm which is almost an internal clock that regulates our 24-hour cycle. It regulates our sleep-wake cycle and that can be disturbed fairly easily,” said neuro-psychiatrist Dr. Julia Samton.
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Inconvenient ATT
Anthropogenic Time Tampering
Would you explain to me the physiology behind an otherwise healthy person being anything more than slightly inconvenienced by a one hour clock change?
Of course I can understand how a psychologically...or even neurologically...impaired person being serious affected.
How about a month each time change. Although sleeping later is easier.
And what about the kiddos? And the idiots in the public school system do the state standardized testing at the same time as the time change.
Different strokes as they say
the natural progression of earth in our orbit around the sun takes care of that very nicely as it is...day by day nearly imperceptibly..as was planned by a civic planner far wiser than any of us.
So,IOW,we're talking psychology here rather than physiology,right?
Definitely hard to adjust. Thrown me way off already.
“Operating on Standard time year round is going on the ballot here in CA”
We will be voting against it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
physiology is to one extent or another in charge of perception
is psychology is the study of perception than perhaps it could be at play.
its very possible that people ALL have slightly different levels of perceptual acuity when it comes to stuff in the “natural” world.
What makes a master violinist...Psychology or Physiology?
***an internal clock that regulates our 24-hour cycle.**
I have read that it regulates a 25 hour cycle, not 24. I spent 32 years working in a plant as a reverse 8 hour rotating shift worker. It was hell. When it went to a forward 8 hour rotating shift, much better. When they changed from an 8 hour rotating shift to a 12 hour rotating shift I decided to bail out as I would not be alive today if I had stayed.
Sleep isn’t the only problem. Meal times change too. The Spring forward time change: we are eating when we aren’t hungry. The stomach and digestive system are not ready for a meal.
As for sleep, it takes me a month to adjust. I know this because, if I don’t set my alarm. I wake up exactly one hour later. Or the other direction, I wake up one hour earlier. I usually fall back to sleep but that extra hour is broken up and might not count towards sleep time.
It doesn’t bother me now that I don’t have to get up. But I do need to re-set my clock.
Agreed!
In my late teens I worked in a office at a different shift each week.
they though it was fair,
I could have sworn is was most UNATURAL and completely insane!
I left after three months of that..
We werent blessed with an internal clock to learn how to abuse that gift.
The natural progression of daylight.and darkness....worked well for thousands of years.
Nonsense.
A one hour time change at the start or end of DST will impact a person’s health as much as driving across the Alabama-Georgia state line and having to adjust your watch.
My Computer resets the time automatically...my phone...same thing
My watch on the other hand does need adjustment.
How does Arizona get along so well with “daylight saving” time?
speak for yourself
A time change will truncate the sleep cycle with the Spring forward being the worst. This sleep debt from each night accumulates while the person adjusts. Sometimes getting too much sleep and then not enough until steady state is reached and the circadian clock is completely reset.
The person may also try to compensate with extra stimulants like caffeine or sleeping pills.
I don’t even care which way they do it.
JUST STOP CHANGING THE FREAKING CLOCKS TWICE A YEAR!
Everyone HATES it.
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