Adjusting the clocks to summer time on the last Sunday in March increases the risk of myocardial infarction in the following week. In return, putting the clocks back in the autumn reduces the risk, albeit to a lesser extent, according to research in the New England Journal of Medicine. We are talking the risk of heart attacks here!So, why do we change the clocks????? Several states do not change their clocks. Any view on this topic? Saving an hour of electricty hardly seems worth the risks.
The American law by which we turn our clock forward in the spring and back in the fall is known as the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The law does not require that anyone observe Daylight Saving Time; all the law says is that if we are going to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must be done uniformly.
Daylight Saving Time has been around for most of this century and even earlier.
I'd just as soon they left the time alone.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Donna..Just leave the clocks alone. In Arizona they do not move the clocks. What time the clock reads means nothing to farm animals. There is a town that lets everyone do as the please. Some residents and business change others do no. It was a farming community. What was required was that each business post what they were doing...
ReplyDeleteDonna I'm with you. Leave the time
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I wish they'd set the clocks to "daylight savings time" and leave them there. I think that they did that for a couple of years in the seventies, during the big oil crisis. I'll never understand why they went back to this Spring Ahead, Fall Back thing.
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