With the time change each spring to daylight saving time, the important relationship between our brains and the sun is disrupted. Sleep experts caution that permanent daylight saving time could misalign our bodies with the sun, causing health issues.

Remind Congress to ditch DST for health!

If The Washington Post takes a stand, I want the opposite. Keep DST year around.

Permanent standard time is the way!

It changes with the solstice you fucking idiots. The only difference now is we have clocks, otherwise the same fucking circumstances existed every year. But hey, I guess this means if perma DST is causing brain issues, then everyone should be home during winter. No working.

64 years alive. Ain’t had no health issues. Just a typical overreaction.

These articles are so ridiculous . One hour either way is doing nothing harmful. Get early sun in your eyes no matter what the clock says. It has many benefits. People who don’t sleep soundly on the regular or people who don’t take care of their bodies are at far greater risk of heart or stroke ,

Every six months this is an outpouring of articles like this. I just don't read them anymore.....

@ChristineGuent8 Can we just stop switching the clock please?

As soon as I hear from The Post "experts say..." I immediately assume the opposite is true.

Again there is no evidence for that. If that were true then crossing time zones would be a major problem for the human body and it isn't. Daylight savings time is not a physical disaster like some of you keep trying to portray.

@Adam_Stirling Yet most people are happier with daylight well after supper. That should probably be taken into account as well

Everyone that creeps about this must live in warm states. There are those of us up north that is dark and cold at 4:59 -6pm for months out of the year. It’s absolutely depressing and we look forward to having the light after work instead of on our way to work.

All of China is under one time zone. Are the Chinese misaligned?

So what hope is there for the health of shift workers who effectively change time zones Weekly (or more)? In my job, I have 54 possible different start times each day, spread between 03:50 and 21:55 - and I very rarely do the same duty for 2 days on a row…?

In the long term, I think we'd just end up having school and work start an hour later. The reasons we chose those start times are inherently environmental. They aren't permanently anchored to the clock.

I really think this is a north-south issue. With dreary winters in Northern States they want the extra hour of daylight. With horrid heat in Southern States, hell yes bring out an extra hour of darkness for the place to cool down.

We'll be fine. Been doing it our entire lives and every time we fly to a different time zone.

We are launching a giant metal tube into the void of space at midnight. 🚀

Could? It does. Every time permanent DST is enacted, it is repealed within a few years. Health issues, safety issues: people don't thrive under DST.

Standard Time is the natural and correct time we should permanently remain on! 😎

Absolutely. However. DST crowd doesn’t care about nature, truth, science, health, safety, or the correct way. They care about their preferences & feelings.

Imagine in HOT summer days, you are forced to sleep at noon, wake up at sunset and start a new "day". With DST, nobody can sleep. DST is CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.🤬🤪

Big news for @SaveStandard 🙌

Permanent standard is by far the worst option. Keep changing, or move to permanent daylight.

Oh give it up! The same snowflakes that complain about the ill effects of time change can cross time zones, spend a week or two on vacation, come back home, rave about the wonderful time and never mention on issue with time change.

At every latitude/longitude people will experience the sun differently. An hr earlier or later in places with 16 hrs of dark or light matters much less than someone closer to the equator. And someone in the extreme east or west of their time zone will see DST differently.

Its depressing to wake up in the dark again.

@SaveStandard @mr_jay_pea

Our phones have the technology to live by real solar time again. I think forcing people to accept a false mean time, itself could cause stress and autism. Sun dial time whereever you are is the real time, not an arbitrary standard from Greenwich England.

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All of sudden the sun is the problem? The climate hoax people certainly have not addressed the fact the sun is hotter than it in just over 100 years of data. The climate hoax folks certainly have not addressed that the sun is out of whack with its 11-year cycle. So now the sun is keeping us from having a happy life. Give me a break. Another crazy assertion for fake science #DSTForever is the only way for our modern world

@MrClark_R6

Permanent Standard time would make first light before 4am in the summer. No thanks I rather have that light till 9pm and have better and darker sleep.

I’m all for the opposite of what we the media suggests as “healthy”