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Originally Posted by billybek

Year round DST would have sunrise here at just past 9:30 am in the winter months.... No thanks.
I would rather see them abandon DST and stay on standard time year round.

Lots of studies on how DST late-evening light effects the circadian rhythm.

I have to think that having our circadian rhythms changed twice a year is more disruptive than sticking with something. And We're already doing DST for ~66% of the year. I also think that electric light and TVs and the various ways that we access the Internet (bright light into the evening from one source or another) also impacts circadian rhythm, so having the sunset, but then having the lights, TV, computer, cell phone, etc... all running isn't allowing our rhythm to update.

I've always been a night owl. If it was up to me, I'd stay up late and sleep in. But it's not up to me. I get up at 415am half of the work week and 645am the other half of the work week. On the weekends, I usually get up 730-830.

Yeah, you folks up north have crappy winter daylight for sure. I'd still rather have more light in the afternoon than the evening.