I guess I'd need to know more to have an informed opinion here. I'm reading that for the first week after spring forward traffic fatalities rise 6% or so and fall off toward the end of the week. Doing some very morbid math here: 2021 saw 42,939 deaths from traffic accidents in the US, which is roughly 825.75. 6% of that is about 50. So DSL kills about 50 people a year, maybe. (I'm also seeing an NIH study that says that DSL may not actually drive accidents, but I'm having trouble understanding their reasoning, tbh)
How much WOULD removal of DSL impact bus stop traffic accidents? If it kills more than 50 a year, it'd technically be an increase in deaths overall, plus basically all of the extra mortality would be kids.
Maybe permanent DSL would be better? People would be grumpy about the sun going down earlier in summer though.
In any case I have absolutely zero ability to effect change here, and I'm just going to keep crying when all the excel sheets at work shatter into a thousand pieces twice a year due to DSL.
Noon is definitionally mid-day, when the sun is at its highest point, which traditionally is 12:00. If we want to tweak the start & end times of school/work/whatever, then let’s simply do that. Why futz with the clock?
Well, for work times, I guess the answer is we live in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and our government isn't going to tell them what to do. For schools it's moving the times without changing work times also would be a logistical disaster.
If the government had full control of the economy it could do all of this at once, but of course, then it could also just implement good public transit and reduce car usage.
I guess I'd need to know more to have an informed opinion here. I'm reading that for the first week after spring forward traffic fatalities rise 6% or so and fall off toward the end of the week. Doing some very morbid math here: 2021 saw 42,939 deaths from traffic accidents in the US, which is roughly 825.75. 6% of that is about 50. So DSL kills about 50 people a year, maybe. (I'm also seeing an NIH study that says that DSL may not actually drive accidents, but I'm having trouble understanding their reasoning, tbh)
How much WOULD removal of DSL impact bus stop traffic accidents? If it kills more than 50 a year, it'd technically be an increase in deaths overall, plus basically all of the extra mortality would be kids.
Maybe permanent DSL would be better? People would be grumpy about the sun going down earlier in summer though.
In any case I have absolutely zero ability to effect change here, and I'm just going to keep crying when all the excel sheets at work shatter into a thousand pieces twice a year due to DSL.
Noon is definitionally mid-day, when the sun is at its highest point, which traditionally is 12:00. If we want to tweak the start & end times of school/work/whatever, then let’s simply do that. Why futz with the clock?
Well, for work times, I guess the answer is we live in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and our government isn't going to tell them what to do. For schools it's moving the times without changing work times also would be a logistical disaster.
If the government had full control of the economy it could do all of this at once, but of course, then it could also just implement good public transit and reduce car usage.
heart attacks also increase. changing the clock is social murder.