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STOP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. IT DOESN'T SAVE ENERGY OR MONEY, AND IT HURTS OUR HEALTH.

Created by B.K. on March 10, 2013

It doesn't work, it has bad health effects, and it is a pain in the neck! A California Energy Commission staff member released another report, Electricity Savings From Early Daylight Saving Time, in 2007. The report found there was no clear evidence that electricity would be saved from the earlier start to daylight saving time and that there was a chance that there could be a very small increase in electricity.The cost of DST - in the U.S. we divert nearly $1.7 billion worth of valuable time to the annual spring-forward, fall-back exercise. It adversely affects our health-A German chronobiologist -- has shown that our circadian body clocks never adjust to daylight saving time. According to his research, moving clocks forward and back again interrupts normal sleep cycles, causing a sort of

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