I wouldn’t call the answer obvious. I’m not even sure if I could have guessed the majority view on this beforehand. Why do you think it’s obvious? Are there no upsides to changing or are the downsides too significant?
We can detect that when we switch between “normal” and “daylight saving” time bad things happen at the transitions. But that doesn’t mean that switching is worse than not switching. We don’t know what bad things would happen when if we didn’t switch.
(E.g., one reason for the bad things is that people’s sleep pattern is disturbed and that has bad health effects. But it might also be bad for sleep to have dawn as early relative to the hours people want to sleep as it would be in the middle of summer without dayli
I wouldn’t call the answer obvious. I’m not even sure if I could have guessed the majority view on this beforehand. Why do you think it’s obvious? Are there no upsides to changing or are the downsides too significant?
The main argument in favor of changing time zones that it supposedly saves energy doesn’t seem to be true these days.
Two examples of issues: People seem to work 16 minutes less the Monday after daylight savings. It also increases heart attacks.
We can detect that when we switch between “normal” and “daylight saving” time bad things happen at the transitions. But that doesn’t mean that switching is worse than not switching. We don’t know what bad things would happen when if we didn’t switch.
(E.g., one reason for the bad things is that people’s sleep pattern is disturbed and that has bad health effects. But it might also be bad for sleep to have dawn as early relative to the hours people want to sleep as it would be in the middle of summer without dayli