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Stop Daylight Savings Time (DST)

Created by K.F. on April 10, 2014

#1. DST was designed to give people more time in sunlight, and ostensibly to conserve energy—but many prominent studies have proven we get little if any benefits from the practice. A U.S. Department of Transportation study in the 1970s concluded that total electricity savings associated with daylight saving time amounted to about 1%.
#2. Experts say that traffic accidents tend to spike the first Monday after daylight saving time, as motorists struggle with an hour less sleep and darker early morning road conditions.
#3. 366 lives could be saved a year, according to a 2004 study in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention.
*info from: http://gothamist.com/2014/03/08/22_reasons_why_daylight_saving_time.php

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