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Title: Daylight Saving Time: Still Happening. Still Unpopular
Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/02/06262...
Millions will set their clocks back an hour tonight for Daylight Saving Time -
only to set them forward an hour six months later. But does anyone like
doing this, asks Yahoo News: A recent AP-NORC poll found that about half of
the American public, 47%, oppose the current daylight saving time system,
compared to 40% who neither favor nor oppose the current practice, while 12%
favor the current system, which involves most states switching their clocks
twice a year. Of those polled, 56% would prefer to have daylight saving time
year-round, meaning less light in the morning for a tradeoff of more light in
the evening. While 42% of Americans said they would prefer to have standard
time year-round, which means more light in the morning and less light in the
evening. And 12% of Americans prefer switching between standard time and
daylight saving time. Sleep doctors would prefer we switch to standard time
permanently. "The U.S. should eliminate seasonal time changes in favor of a
national, fixed, year-round time," the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
said in a statement published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine last
year. "Current evidence best supports the adoption of year-round standard
time, which aligns best with human circadian biology and provides distinct
benefits for public health and safety."
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