Daylight Savings Time causes Heart Attacks

[x3 skier]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-heart-daylightsaving-idUSBREA2S0D420140329


"Switching over to daylight saving time, and losing one hour of sleep, raised the risk of having a heart attack the following Monday by 25 percent, compared to other Mondays during the year, according to a new U.S. study released on Saturday.

By contrast, heart attack risk fell 21 percent later in the year, on the Tuesday after the clock was returned to standard time, and people got an extra hour's sleep."

Never did like DST

Cheers

 

[Talent312]

March 12th -- the start of DST -- was also my b'day.
So, I lost both a year off my life, and another hour.
Adding insult to injury.

 

[LannyPC]

Never did like DST

Have you thought of moving to a place that does not observe DST such as AZ or HI?

 

[x3 skier]

Have you thought of moving to a place that does not observe DST such as AZ or HI?

Don't dislike it that much

Cheers

 

[John Cummings]

It is not daylight saving time that causes the problem, it is the time change. I prefer daylight saving time and wish they would just leave it there.

 

[pedro47]

It is not daylight saving time that causes the problem, it is the time change. I prefer daylight saving time and wish they would just leave it there.

I also liked daylight saving time and I too wish they would leave it there. I loved that extra hour of light working in the garden and playing golf.

 

[MOXJO7282]

You would think it would always be advantageous to get the extra hour of light. More daylight means less traffic accidents I'm sure. Outdoors workers that need natural light would get an extra hour to work. More crime is committed in the dark.

 

[LannyPC]

I loved that extra hour of light working in the garden and playing golf.

Not trying to split hairs here but technically, we don't get "that extra hour of light". We get the same amount of light regardless of where we set our clocks. With DST, we just borrow an hour of light from the morning and tack it onto the evening. So, in the minds of some, while the sun sets an hour later in the evening, it also rises an hour later in the morning.

But then, hey, not many pay attention to the "lost" hour at sunrise.

 

[DavidnRobin]

 

[Brett]

More heart attacks -

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/politics/house-vote-daylight-savings-time

 

[LannyPC]

More heart attacks -

Not necessarily. I know there have been a lot of studies claiming that DST and changing of the clocks do this, that, and the other to health and bodies, but IDK. According to these studies (I will take these with a grain of salt), the uptick in heart attacks and strokes occur within the first 36 hours, or so, after the changing of the clocks, whether they are adjusted forward or back. So if this is correct, then there should be fewer heart attacks and strokes because there will be no more changing of the clocks.

It would be interesting to see reports from states and provinces (Hawaii, Arizona, Saskatchewan, Yukon) who don't adjust their clocks biannually to see what their rates of heart attacks, strokes, and car accidents are on average year-round and compare that to what the rates are around the time the remainder of the continent change the clocks.

 

[Cornell]

According to the article Mondays also “cause” heart attacks.

Let’s change our calendar system & have a 6 day week to get rid of Mondays.

Or maybe we can change the name of “Monday” into something different. Seems like an easy fix.

 

[Krteczech]

Changing time is not my favorite experience, but I still don’t understand why daylight savings time would be preferred over keeping regular time?

 

[dioxide45]

Changing time is not my favorite experience, but I still don’t understand why daylight savings time would be preferred over keeping regular time?

More people prefer more daylight in the PM vs AM.

 

[WinniWoman]

My opinion is permanent standard time and let states decide if they want to do DST or not, like Arizona and Hawaii do.

 

[WinniWoman]

More people prefer more daylight in the PM vs AM.

But doesn’t it depend where you live?

Like say you’re in the north- do you honestly go outside after work in the freezing cold 6 months of the year? Ok- maybe some do and go skiing or whatever. But I’m betting most go home to a warm house and keep the fire burning. Who cares if it’s dark out?

And southerners - do you need more daylight at the hottest time of the day or early in the morning when it’s cooler?

Just some thoughts…

 

[Cornell]

Changing time is not my favorite experience, but I still don’t understand why daylight savings time would be preferred over keeping regular time?

Because "those" people want more sunlight later in the day during winter.

 

[DrQ]

Because "those" people want more sunlight later in the day during winter.

I remember vacationing in mid June at Wheeler's Point MN (one of the few places in the US where you can look South into Canada)

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It was 10:30 PM CDT and there was still daylight! I bet it was brutal in December at 4:30 PM CST in both temperature and darkness.

 

[geist1223]

Folks have forgotten about what happened back in the 70's during the Gas Crisis and went to permanent Day Light Savings Time for a short period. Parents went nuts with how dark and cold it was when their kids were going to school in the morning.

 

[DrQ]

Folks have forgotten about what happened back in the 70's during the Gas Crisis and went to permanent Day Light Savings Time for a short period.

I remember. I was a FROSH at Purdue hiking at 6:45 AM for my 7:30 AM class on M-W-F-Sa in December from McCutcheon hall (furthest from academic campus). Oh to be young again.

 

[youppi]

But doesn’t it depend where you live?

Like say you’re in the north- do you honestly go outside after work in the freezing cold 6 months of the year? Ok- maybe some do and go skiing or whatever. But I’m betting most go home to a warm house and keep the fire burning. Who cares if it’s dark out?

And southerners - do you need more daylight at the hottest time of the day or early in the morning when it’s cooler?

Just some thoughts…

It's for summer that DST is preferred to get longer daylight in the evening vs having it in the morning when everybody is sleeping.
In winter, one or the other, it's not a big difference. If it's a problem for kids in the morning with DST in winter then school could start 1 hour later.

 

[dioxide45]

My opinion is permanent standard time and let states decide if they want to do DST or not, like Arizona and Hawaii do.

That is what we already have. It's just that most states have opted to go with DST and only a few remain on standard time year round.

 

[dioxide45]

Folks have forgotten about what happened back in the 70's during the Gas Crisis and went to permanent Day Light Savings Time for a short period. Parents went nuts with how dark and cold it was when their kids were going to school in the morning.

I would think schools can adjust their schedules. I often see busses on the road between 2:00pm and 3:00pm. Why are they letting out so early and why do some school days start at 7:30am?

 

[jeanf]

I would think schools can adjust their schedules. I often see busses on the road between 2:00pm and 3:00pm. Why are they letting out so early and why do some school days start at 7:30am?

Here in Southern Ontario, Canada, there's been a huge lack of school bus drivers for over 10 years. They ended up staggering the school hours, so one school bus driver will pick up and deliver kids to an earlier starting school, then the same driver right after will pick up and deliver to a later starting school. After school they do the same, pick up and deliver from 2 schools. Very long days for the drivers with only a few hours to themselves, but it seems to work out ok here.

 

[youppi]

I would think schools can adjust their schedules. I often see busses on the road between 2:00pm and 3:00pm. Why are they letting out so early and why do some school days start at 7:30am?

When I was kid, it was something like this: we started school at 8h30 and finished at 15h30 and people going to high school started at 7h30 and finished at 14h30.
When I was at high school they flipped the schedule: kids start at 8h00 and finish at 15h00 and high school students start at 9h00 and finish at 16h00.
40 years later, the schedule is still the same where kids start earlier than high school students.
So, they could flip it again if it's too dark in the morning for kids with DST at 8h00.