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I wonder if they were rewarded with a trip to the Dairy Bar???

IIRC, there was a time in the 1970s, with the Middle Eastern oil embargo, when we did away with standard time to save energy (more people want and need natural light in the later afternoon than in the early mornings). I believe it was in Indiana that early one morning in the (now) pitch black a school bus plowed into waiting students, killing several. They reverted to standard time.

Safety aside, the circadian rhythms of young people are even more screwed up (than normal, which is already pretty bad!) when getting up in the dark. All kinds of studies show it hurts learning in school, though DST now always extends just past Halloween, since it is thought more important for kids to get candy in the light than it is to save them from screwing up their learning in the dark.

I'm not on either side of this, just stating the arguments I hear.

As to school schedules, a lot of that depends on how towns with limited #s of buses can juggle their schedules.

I've read that the way the law is written, Standard is the only choice, even though most everyone agrees that Daylight is better, and that's part of why there hasn't been more support for eliminating the time change

It just happened again! I tried to write and a pop up ad knocks me off our site. Anyone else?

How do you do it?

Before accurate clocks, people in northern latitudes talked of short summer overnights and long winter nights. They kept the same number of hours in daytime and nighttime, measuring by sunrise and sunset. That meant an hour was variable in length per the time of year.

Ben Franklin was the first to propose DST, as a boost to businesses like printing, where natural light was important to productivity. He commissioned the first bifocals too, similarly for the purpose of better work in his printing shop.

Interesting, swash: thanks!
I think a real shift in time precision comes with railroads, and Greenwich Mean Time.

This article:

www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/11/05/time-change-health-risks-experts/9751636117288/



Argues we should not switch back and forth, but to my surprise makes an argument for Standard time, rather than DST all year round. It also made an interesting argument, one I have not seen before, why the changing of the clocks is a bigger deal than the problems created by jet lag for long trips. I confess I have been in the camp that figures that if I can adjust to a four or five hour time change going to and from Europe, how on earth can a one hour change be a big deal but they make an interesting case. I like to see if it has been formally studied.