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Abolish Daylight Savings Time

Created by R.L. on February 01, 2014

The drawbacks of Daylight Savings Time (DST) overwhelm its benefits. It's time to repeal this aspect of the Standard Time Act of 1918 and the Unified Time Act of 1966. Specifically, we need to end the practice of shifting our clocks twice a year.

Recent studies have shown that DST confers little or no energy saving benefit but produce profound physiological stress to those who shift their time twice a year...

*DST Increased energy costs:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14429.pdf
http://energy.ca.gov/2007publications/CEC-200-2007-004/CEC-200-2007-004.PDF

*DST Linked to suicides:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1479-8425.2007.00331.x

*DST linked to heart attacks:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1056%2FNEJMc0807104

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